Saint Mary’s

Washingtonville

Fr. Jeffrey Maurer, Pastor

Fr. Matthew MacDonald

Fr. Paul Dmoch

Deacon Tim Curran

Deacon Barney Kahn

Alyssa McCabe YM + Office

Brian Manngard Facilities

Diane Meore Office

Marie Temple Office

Sr Kathleen Treanor CCD

Jeanne Versweyveld CCD

Jennifer Edwards CCD + YM

Val Wojnicki, Little Lambs

Contact Information Phone 845.496.3730

During Lockdown

email is best to

stmaryswashingtonville

@gmail.com

A great amount of thanks is due

to Cardinal Dolan who – unlike

other bishops – permitted

Churches to remain open and

gave some latitude for things

like Confession and more

during this trying time.

Marian Visits to First

Communion Kids!

Adoration Sundays from 9am-Noon

Confessions are in lot from 1-230pm

From a parish with

plenty of front-line

workers - a big

thank you!

Thank you to Brother Zach who has

been keeping us connected through

the recorded offering of Mass each

weekend, various videos and the

Little Lamb’s video “open house.”

ST. MARY’S STIMULUS PLAN - Made possible by a benefactor to “keep people working,” this program is

for our parishioners who are currently underemployed/unemployed and who are contractors and skilled

laborers in need of temporary work. If you are skilled in seal coating, painting, light construction, or

carpentry, and have time to offer your services to the parish, please complete the brief, confidential

form on our website & Father Maurer will review it and be in touch with you shortly afterwards.

Or the “PPP” (Parishioner Protection Program) Parishioners who are experiencing financial hardship in

regard to covering the cost of groceries, utilities, or other major bills may be eligible for grants up to

$250 to help offset expenses. (Examples include grocery gift cards, utility bills, car payments, etc.) If

eligible, you will not be required to pay back this grant; we only ask that if your future circumstances

permit it, that you pay it forward. To apply, please complete the brief form below. Your information will

remain confidential and be reviewed only by Father Maurer. Grants are administered directly to the

company/agency for which the request is being made, O&R, gift cards for groceries, etc.

If you have questions, please contact us at stmaryswashingtonville@gmail.com, call the parish office at

845-496-3730, or reach out to us on Facebook (St. Mary’s Washingtonville).

St. Mary’s “Stimulus” or “PPP”

Please read carefully

I want to let our senior citizens at Saint

Mary’s know that they are loved, missed

and prayed for in a particular way. One of

my “Communion calls” turned 98 last

month! Her kids were baptized in the “old

wooden church in the parking lot” but grew

up on the West Side of Manhattan – she

has a great voice for singing and was

trained in it at a fancy Catholic school in

Manhattan where one of her teachers was

the daughter of JP Morgan, who converted

to the Catholic Faith and became a nun!

All of our seniors citizens are missed and

we can’t wait till we’re back!

CATHOLIC CHARITIES & PARISH COUNSELING

NETWORK

Catholic Charities' short-term counseling network is specifically designed to

meet the needs of parishioners adjusting to the current crisis. Through

telephonic services, therapists are available to help parishioners adjust to one of

the most significant and troubling challenges of our lifetimes; coping strategies

are offered to manage altered routines, anxiety, fear, stress, and a sense of

crisis. The network has Spanish language capacity.

All you need to do is request a referral from Father.

REQUESTING A REFERRAL: Before you call the number below, please send us a

brief email at stmaryswashingtonville@gmail.com notifying Father Maurer

you’re interested in this service (details are NOT necessary), and include your

name and cell phone number. He will be in touch with you and make the

referral as quickly as possible. It’s that simple.

Parish Counseling Network Referral Phone Number: 1-866-962-7487

2. OTHER HELPLINES FOR PARISHIONERS

Catholic Charities Regional Helpline (Orange, Sullivan & Ulster Counties)

CCOSUhelpline@cccsos.org

For additional information, please visit Catholic Charities at

www.catholiccharitiesny.org.

On May 30th

- Cardinal Dolan announced that the

Archdiocese has a plan in place for the re-opening of

our Churches.

This plan has 4 Stages:

Stage One: times for private prayer and confessions

Stage Two: Celebration of Baptisms and Marriages

Stage Three: Funeral Masses & Daily Mass

Stage Four: Sunday Masses with supervised

attendance

Please note that the starting dates for each phase have not yet been

established and that they, most likely, will be “region by region” and

will follow the starting dates established by state mandates. We will

follow the policies of the New York Archdiocese.

Pray for the dead:

Maureen Bowes

Patrick Monroe

Patrick Woods

Segundo Aranda

Michael Frisbee

Catherine Kennedy

Genevieve Loughlin

Francis Paterno

Michel Kozak

Stephen Reineke

Daniel Rodriguez

Joseph Belvedere

Sal Mancuso

Kathleen McBride

Michael Stevens

Mary Carroll

William Rosario

Denis Curran

Elsie Walsky

Robert Gardiner

Lauri Manley

Country Kids Food Pantry

Open each Wednesday

Need Help? Give Help?

Call them – 845.496.2119

As the COVID lockdown began we committed

to calling the folks we have each weekend to

check in on them and see how they’re doing.

We tried over 1500 numbers to call and found

a lot of “dead 496” numbers. Many people

have completely gone to cell phones so we’re

asking that you fill out a sheet in this packet

and mail it to us so we can use the time this

summer to update everything.

There were so many wonderful

pictures from Easter because, frankly,

Easter was wonderful. Thanks for

your enthusiasm & devotion during

the strangest Easter in our lives.

I cannot tell you how grateful I

am for your support for Saint

Mary’s during this critical time.

You have helped us keep

everyone on staff and also

provide funds to really help

folks. These programs are

outlined in the pages before this

and in the projects list below.

THANK YOU

THANK YOU

THANK YOU

First Communions, Baptisms and Confirmations!

Fear not, Religious Education is going to be in touch with you soon and

will have all of them done over the summer in the evenings – thank

you for your patience and know that they will be beautiful and

personal – trust me – you’ll love them.

Like everything else in during this time we have a plan and will make

each sacrament as reverent and special as it deserves to be.

Get me in the water! Give

us a ring and we will

work Baptism out for

you during the summer!

Give yourself a tech Sabbath once a week

To all of you middle & HS kids

in our parish and youth

ministry – know that while

school may be on pause – our

prayers for you continue.

Religious Ed Updates Registration continues for CCD and a “Welcome Email” can be found in your inbox on March 3rd

from Parish Giving. If you made note of your log in information from last year, use that to sign in. You will need to pay first and then choose a session. If

you are adding a Level 1 student, please be sure the child's grade level is noted when you add the name

and birthday.

If your child was not baptized at St. Mary’s, we will need a copy of the Baptismal certificate emailed

stmarysjversweyveld@gmail.com or place a copy in the mail to St. Mary’s Religious Education

42 Goshen Avenue Washingtonville 10992.

Since the Camp Veritas has been cancelled everywhere except Florida, register your Level 7

child for the Confirmation/Non-Camp class on Monday evenings. Any child going into grade 7 in

September. Thanks for your patience with all of this chaos in the world and education right now.

If there is worry about affording it – speak with us – we’ll help you.

During this time of quarantine, some of the things that we have been holding onto for strength are both

faith and family. We here at St. Mary’s have been doing our best to try to keep connected to you, our parish

family, whether it’s through Drive-in Confessions, Easter Processions, First Communion Visits, and Videos

of Mass & more.

Our Catholic Faith is a relationship, one that includes not only “me & Jesus” but also the larger family of faith. This is a family that extends across nations, time, and space linking me personally and our age to Jesus and to the Father, Holy Spirit, Our Lady, and all the Angels and Saints in every age, united in love and grace. Some of the first people who taught us to pray are our parents: our mother and father. Whether its teaching us the basic prayers: the Our Father, the Hail Mary, the Glory be, and the Creeds, to going to Mass together on Sundays and Holy Days, or to praying grace before meals together. Our parents help us in their love for us, despite their strengths and failings, to see that in life we are never alone. The same is true with our Heavenly Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary.

When we unite ourselves to Jesus through the hands of His Mother and Ours, no matter what earthly joys and trials we may face, Our Lord will take care of us and give us what we need to follow him and be faithful to him in this earthly life. Be assured of my continued prayers for you all and I look forward to seeing you around at church, whether it’s for private prayer and hopefully soon for public Mass.

Father MacDonald

With the closing of schools, Little Lambs’ Preschool has

finished out the school year with a video lesson by the

teachers, emailed to our three and four year olds, a

socially distanced drive by to say good bye & to collect our

certificates, and lastly, via email attachment, a year’s

memories in a slideshow of the children to each family.

Moving forward to a new school year, our website

stmaryslittlelambs.org can be accessed best through a

desktop device; where info about registration, including a

virtual tour through the school can be seen. Registration

is ongoing, just call 845-496-7221 or email me at

stmarysvwojnicki@gmail.com All of us at Little Lambs

pray you have a restful and healthy summer recess.

Val Wojnicki-Director

- Nuts and Bolts – Facilities Upgrades – Helping Workers-

Since so many folks need work especially in the fields on construction and more

after a three month “lockdown” from the Governor – we wanted to help them out.

So St. Mary’s is using our savings to hire parishioners only to build an outdoor

area for drive in Masses & more, sealcoat our parking lot, paint and refurbish

some areas which need a bit of attention. We will also work on some planning for

a cemetery expansion because we need space in the future.

Welcome Sisters! We’ve been very grateful for the

added ministry of the Sisters, Parish Visitors of

Mary Immaculate; they will be coming on board in

the Fall to help in various ministries depending on

how all of the virus restrictions allow us.

The Rosary

continues to be

prayed on

Tuesday evenings

at 7pm

RCIA and Catholicism 101

Last September folks gathered to

prepare for receiving a Sacrament or to

simply learn more about their Catholic

Faith. Our routine came to a halt in

mid-March. We paused for a few

weeks, but when it became apparent

that we were not going to be able to

meet in person any time soon, we

offered our 28 students the

opportunity to continue the course

online using Zoom. 21 of the 28 class

members attended our first Zoom Class

which was planned to test out the

zoom and work out the bugs. We took

the time to reconnect with each other

and talked about how the quarantine

was affecting each one of us and our

families. Since then we have ‘met’ for

our class on The Ten Commandments

and are looking forward to continuing

every Monday night to complete the

original curriculum.

Women’s Zoom

Bible Study

Our Genesis Bible study is underway & if

you’d like to join us, via zoom, our class is

held on Thursdays 6:30-8:00 pm.

Call Val 845-496-5708

Updated Census Information

Name: __________________________________________

Others in the house

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Address: _________________________________________

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E-mail Address: _____ ______________________________

Cell Phone:(_____)_____ _____________________________

Any talents that might help Saint Mary’s

Painting, construction, tech or others?

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Masses for the month offered privately each morning by the priests

Kate Chappell, Paul H. Partridge, Sr. & G. Stanley Partridge, Jr., Elizabeth Kelleher, Stephen Politza,

Son Mi & Louis Altro Raymond Kelly, Mary Giuliano, Edward Burbridge, Geraldine Navatta, Vincent

Salmieri, Edward Burbridge, Ann Breheny Deceased of Casazza & Leveoni Families, Daniel Ryan, Ed

& Kay Blackford, George Ramm, Dcn John Shepard, Maryann F. Hastings, Deceased of the

Rudzinski, Nasuta, Witkowski, Szoeke, Czyzewski, Ogonowski, Lewandowski Families, St. Mary’s

Society, Edward Luedke, Margaret and Mary Kate Latimer, James Lynch, Susan Nagle Falsetta,

Leonardo Albuquerque, Thomas Barnitt, Daniel Farfone, Elmer Spear, Rose Ferris, Virginia Abrey,

Frances & Michael Heberling, Larry & Judy Masterson, William Roth Jean McKeon, Mary Paulus,

Agnes Devitt; Ralph, Eva, Dorothy and Wallace Doughty, Javier Gonzalez, Michael L. Strolla, Nancy

& Michael Tatta, Gerard, Danny and Brian Strommer II, Patricia Caparla, Grace O’Hara Bonelli,

James Lynch, Frank & Mary McQuade, Margaret & Mary Kate Latimer, Lisa Spisany, Silvio Cella,

Natale & Mary Giuffra, Nick Matro, Michael & Mary O’Connell, Alfred & Anna Beers, Fathers

Sullivan, Steltz, Mastaglio, McConnell, Tierney, Keaveny & Cox, Sister Teresa Kelly, Madeline

Vatcky, Debra Graziano, Melissa Martucci and Marina Petersen, Howie McCaffrey, John Crescenzo,

Hans W. Taegtmeier, All Fathers, Richard King, Geraldine Marin, James Kemmer, Michael Spear,

Bernadine Podaza, John Spear, Theresa Salmieri, Rita & David Whamond, Marion Meehan Bridget,

Francis, Michael, Peggy, Patricia & Mickey Clyne, Margaret Pryor, Angelina Fernino, Michael &

Nazly Winkeleer Angelo & Aurelia Giuffra, Edelara Alers, Julian Bonelli, Segundo Aranda,

& the People of the Parish

In doing calls, email, and

mailings we’ve discovered

tons of “dead numbers” or

“addressee has moved

away” – if you fill this out

this will help us to know

who we “actually have” as

parishioners.

Please fill this out and

mail back to

Census Mgr- St Mary’s

42 Goshen Avenue

Washingtonville, NY

10992

Thanks a million!