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St. Vincent de Paul
Roman Catholic Church
1500 DePaul Street
Elmont, N.Y. 11003
“A Parish with Heart”
Pastoral Staff
Rev. Msgr. Richard M. Figliozzi
Administrator
(516) 352-2127
Parish Social Ministry
Monday, Wednesday and Thursday
9:00 am to 1:00 pm
(516) 354-4976
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
February 1, 2015
From Msgr. Figliozzi
Scriptural Reflection for the Week
“If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.” (see
Psalm 95) The urgency of listening to the Lord is obvious.
What is not so obvious to us is that a hardened heart will
prevent us from being able to listen! Is your heart hardened
due to a weak or non-existent prayer life? Maybe you are
full of self-pity which does a lot of damage to our spiritual
life? It could be that you have become very self centered
and only concerned about your own needs, whims, desires
and fantasies? Or perhaps you are beginning to doubt your
faith in God? The Lord is always communicating with us
through our prayer and the events and every day reality of
our lives. How important to make a priority out of our need
to be able to listen to Him!
The Season of Lent
This year, Ash Wednesday falls on February 18th and
Holy Week begins on March 29th with Palm Sunday and
Easter is on April 5th.
Carnevale 2015 at St. Catherine of Sienna
Tickets are now available for our Saturday, February 7th
celebration. Call the Parish Office at 516-352-0146 for
reservations. Tickets are $45 which includes meal with
wine and live music.
The Feast of St. Blaise
Is this Tuesday, February 3rd. Throats will be blessed after
the 8:30am Mass.
Last Weekend’s Collection and Attendance
Parish: $4,313.31
Attendance: 4:00pm—289
8:30am—138
12:30pm—134
Total: 561
Thank you for your support.
One Final Thought
“Our joy will be complete if we remain in the love for His
love is personal, intimate, real, living, delicate, faithful love.”
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Stewardship…..
Reflection
Moses told the people, “A prophet like me
will the Lord, your God, raise up for you
from among your own kinsmen.” God still
provides among His people the gifts and
talents necessary to continue the work of
His Church. What gifts are yours to share?
Living Stewardship
We are grateful this week for all stewards in
our parish who set time aside with the
Sunday Readings throughout the week so as
to be better prepared to hear the Word of God
and act on it.
MASS INTENTIONS
MASS INTENTIONS
for the Week
for this Weekend
Saturday
4:00 pm
Sunday
8:30 am
12:30 pm
January 31
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February 1
Nicola Correale
Rose O’Hara
SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES
Sunday:
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time;
Boy Scout Sunday
Monday: The Presentation of the Lord;
World Day for Consecrated Life;
Blessing of Candles; Groundhog Day
Tuesday: St. Blaise; St. Ansgar; Blessing of Throats
Thursday: St. Agatha
Friday:
St. Paul Miki and companions; First Friday
Saturday: Blessed Virgin Mary; First Saturday
Monday
8:30 am
Tuesday
8:30 am
Wednesday
8:30 am
Thursday
8:30 am
Friday
8:30 am
Saturday
4:00 pm
February 2
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February 3
For the People of the Parish
February 4
Frank & Rita Strohm
February 5
Marino Zanotti
February 6
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February 7
Teresa DeMatteis
PARISH ‘IN HOME’ PRAYER PROGRAM
Host Family/Individual:
PILGRIM STATUE OF OUR LADY
OF FATIMA
Martha Baez
CUP OF PRAYER
The Hale Family
Please pray for the deceased and their
Families:
♦
Frank Dilullo
May he rest in peace…
Love is stronger than death...God is love
There are still many current dates available
for Altar Candles as well as the
Wine and Host.
Please consider this special way to honor a
loved one, living or deceased.
MISSION STATEMENT
As members of St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Parish, we are committed to
assisting our members in both the spiritual and temporal needs of life. We are a
parish with heart who are committed to “Let all things be done with Charity”
and show we are disciples of Christ by our love for one another.
Why is Eucharistic Adoration Important ?
By Rev. Johnny R. Mendonca
For the next few weeks I would like to share and talk about Eucharistic Adoration. I'm going to start with the second, or Vatican Council II. One of the many concerns discussed at
the Vatican Council was how to work for Christian unity, or how to heal the gap in the
church that Jesus established. This included the division between the east and west, the
Catholic and the Orthodox that goes back over a thousand years and the more recent
division between Catholic, Protestant and other religions that call themselves Christian.
In the Council's decree on ecumenism, the council tried to get Catholics to see how much
we have in common with other Christian churches, to emphasize the beliefs we agree on
rather than to concentrate exclusively on our differences in belief and practice. This was
great, but another problem developed. With the effort to see what we believe together,
there arose a tendency to water down Catholic beliefs, to dilute Catholic dogmas, to
overlook differences, to pretend that they were not there in order to look friendly, more
acceptable to non-Catholic Christians. The result, as many of us know was lukewarm
Catholics. Catholics were saying things like: "it doesn't make any difference what you believe as long as you're sincere" or "as long as it makes you feel good". There's no right or
wrong, black or white. Everything is gray. It can be anything you want it to be.
Incidentally, when I refer to Catholics, I am not restricting it to just laity. With such an approach, that of `no-restrictions, no-obligation invitation', we should have expected to see a
great flow of other Christians into the Catholic Church. We did not see any such flow, but
we did see a tremendous flow of Catholics out of the ranks of truly believing and practicing
Catholics. We saw the tragic drop in Sunday Mass attendance, from over 75% to less than
25%.
It's still good for us Catholics to know what beliefs we hold to in common with other
Christians, but now, it has become more urgent that we Catholics know how we are different; to recognize the treasures of faith that we have; treasures rejected or abandoned by
other Christians. Therefore, I would like to concentrate on the principal Catholic belief that
makes us Catholics different – different from the great majority of other Christians. That, of
course, is our belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist.
Many non-Catholics are quite happy to accept the Catholic teaching regarding the Real
Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist as something that the Catholic Church believes.
They say that the Catholic Church has “these funny ideas” about their communion rites,
and believes “some odd things” about the bread and wine used in their services. But, they
continue, does that really matter? Their view seems to be “We all have some different
ideas about the non-essentials, but on the essentials we agree. Can't we all just get
along?” Many Catholics seem to agree with them, choosing to remain silent on the matter
of the Eucharist when it comes up. Many Catholics do not seem to understand the importance of the Eucharist, and what it actually means.
To suggest that Catholics should view their distinctive view of the Eucharist as important
and be aware of how it differs from the non-Catholic position does not mean that a
Catholic cannot or should not be friendly with a non-Catholic – far from it! Such friendships
are wonderful things, and are – in fact – a source of opportunities for ecumenical dialog. It
is also a very good thing to work with non-Catholics on projects where there is no theological conflict (picketing abortion mills, running soup kitchens) and so forth. However,
compromising, downplaying or ignoring the Eucharist is not something that Catholics are
permitted to do, nor is it a position consistent with the beliefs of Catholics or non-Catholics
to suggest that what the Catholic Church believes about the Eucharist is “non-essential”.
To a Catholic, the Eucharist is neither more nor less than Jesus Christ Himself in the flesh.
He is really, truly and substantially present under the appearance of bread and wine. Because Catholics believe that Jesus Christ is divine, when Catholics interact with the Eucharist, that interaction is worship and adoration. Although non-Catholics often accuse
Catholics of worshiping statues and the saints when we in fact do not, the fact of the matter is that we do worship, and admit to worshiping, something which looks to them to be,
and they think is, a small wafer of bread. Catholics do worship the Eucharist, because the Eucharist is God. Protestants do not worship the Eucharist, because they do not
believe it is God. They believe that it is nothing more than a small wafer of bread.
( To be continued )
St. Vincent de Paul
Parish Office – (516) 352-2127
Hours:
Monday thru Thursday - 9:00 am to 2:00 pm
Saturday - 9:00 am to 2:00 pm
Friday and Sunday – Closed
Fax – (516) 305-5474
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.stvincentdepaulparish.org
For Emergency relating to death or dying
after 2 pm call St. Catherine of Sienna (516) 352-0146
We Celebrate the Eucharist
Saturday Vigil – 4:00 pm
Sunday – 8:30 am & 12:30 pm
Weekdays: Monday thru Friday 8:30 am
Holy Day Mass Schedules will be announced
in the Bulletin on the prior Sunday.
We Celebrate the Sacraments
Sacrament of ReconciliaƟon – Saturdays
immediately after celebration of the Vigil
Mass, or by calling the Parish Office for an
appointment with a Priest.
Sacrament of BapƟsm – call the Parish
Office to arrange for an interview. This
should be done while awaiting the birth of
your child.
Sacrament of Marriage – call the Parish
Office to make an appointment with a priest
before making social arrangements.
Visitation of the Sick and
Homebound
call the Parish Office to arrange for a visit
by a Priest to receive the Sacrament of the
Anointing of the Sick, and also to receive
Holy Communion.
Holy Hour – on the first Friday of the
month after the 8:30 am Mass with
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and
concluding with Benediction.
Devotions
The Rosary – is recited daily before the 8:30
am Weekday Masses. Miraculous Medal
Novena and Special Prayers to St. Anthony
are said on Thursdays after the 8:30 am
Mass.
Please Pray for our Sick relatives and
Friends:
Rev. Msgr. Thomas Hartman
Matthew Haygood ; Anthony Gangemella
Madelyn Kushner; Maria Scuccimarra
Linda Rome; Charlotte Orlando
Bob Soveign; Maria Gloe; Helen Strohm; Ann Parazelli
Patricia DeRosa; Sean Bennett; Kaelyn Judith Donlon
Larry Blumberg; Ann Mitarotonda; Margaret McCabe
Arlindo Marcelino; Jack Musolino; Janet Falco
Diane Drescher; Ralph Wilson; Diane Wilson
Brittany Wilson; Raul Matos; Mary Italo
Penny Wyckoff; Matthew Noah; Karen Hoffmeyer
Tommy Lannan; Vincente Mejias; William Ross
George McAuliffe; Michael O’Malley; Ann Donahue
Thomas McCreight; Jean Henry; Dominick Consolazio
Theresa Chevalier; Frank Saccone; Eugenia Lane
Barbara Ostipwko; Dorie Harbin; Carlos Mackey
Shane Harbin; Gerry Petrella; Veronica Dixon
Bill Gilbert; Madeline Corrigan; Karen Carlucci
Tom Camberiarti; Maria Rossi Pashayen
Howard Wirth; Albert Bartlett; Anna Marie Orlando
Dorothy Mink Honald
Please Pray for our Men & Women
in the U.S. Armed Forces:
Diane Rosemary Patrick, USAF
Aaron J. Shattuck
Thomas Bradshaw
Arlindo Almida
Thomas Lainis
Peter Dilos
Frankie Umile
Rev. David Kruse (Chaplain)
Joseph Giordano, USMC
John Marco Militano, USA
Joseph A. Galante, USMC
Jimmy Bustamante
Latasha Coward
Nicholas Russo
James E. Allen
Brian Kevin Corrigan
Michael Borg
Christopher Messano
Carlos Felix
Michael Arana
The Office of Multicultural Diversity
Catholics of African Ancestry –
Haitian American Apostolate
Diocese of Rockville Centre
Presents the
34th Annual Anniversary Mass of Thanksgiving in honor of
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
The Clergy from St. Catherine of Sienna
who serve us here at
St. Vincent de Paul are as follows:
Pastor/Administrator
St. Agnes Cathedral
29 Quealy Place, Rockville Centre, NY 11570
TIME: 2:00PM
On Saturday, February 7, 2015
The Eve of the Feast of St. Josephine Bakhita
Rev. Msgr. Richard M. Figliozzi
Associate Pastors
Rev. Allan Arneaud
Rev. Johnny Mendonca
Rev. Charles N. Srion
Deacons
Joseph Benincasa
Frank Gonzalez
Principle Celebrant:
Most Rev. Andrzej Zglejszewski
Homilist & Celebrant:
Rev. Maurice J. Nutt, C.Ss.R., D.Min.
The dark side of the Super Bowl and how Congress aims to fight it
Washington D.C., Jan 28, 2015 / 04:18 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Just days before Super Bowl XLIX,
the U.S. House of Representatives is pushing for a bipartisan crack-down on the hidden menace of sex
trafficking, which some human rights advocates refer to as “modern-day slavery.”
“Everyone needs to be put on notice: if you buy or sell an individual like a commodity, the law is coming
after you, and you can get up to life imprisonment, according to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act,”
announced Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) on Tuesday at the bipartisan End Human Trafficking Press Conference on Capitol Hill. Smith referenced the upcoming Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona on Feb. 1 as
the center of the next big push to curb sex trafficking. Large sporting events like the Super Bowl and
the World Cup have become notorious dens of human sex trafficking with large crowds descending on
one city for a short period of time. “Hopefully the Super Bowl will not see what we’ve seen in previous
Super Bowls, and that is the massive exploitation of women,” he stated.
A combination of state and local efforts helped curb trafficking during last year’s Super Bowl in New
Jersey, Rep. Smith said, most notably with the arrests of members of a drug and prostitution ring in
New York City. Ultimately, the House hopes to have a dozen bills signed into law before the end of the
year. The proposed legislation includes safe-harbor laws for victims of trafficking, encourages treating
child prostitutes as victims rather than criminals, penalizes those who provide advertisements for trafficking, and boosts awareness of human traffickers by local law enforcement. “Every one of these bills
meets an unmet need. This is the most creative use of legislative talent I have ever seen,” Smith said.
Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) called the current situation a “crisis in our country.” She noted a particular
problem for the trafficking of young people who fall through the cracks in the foster home system. Last
year, the House unanimously passed legislation authored by Bass to help connect child trafficking victims to resources and service that can prevent their further abuse. The problem of modern-day slavery
still however, and it calls for speedy action by Congress, said Rep. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.).
“We’re alarmed by what this industry is doing, how it’s growing in the United States, and not just in urban areas around big events,” Rep. Noem told EWTN. “Everybody thinks human trafficking and sex
trafficking is happening at the Super Bowl, at big events. Well it’s also happening at little rural small
towns every single day.” Even Craigslist-style announcements from small South Dakotan towns are
bringing in sex slaves, she said, noting that “76 percent of sex trafficking is being done over the internet
right now.” Noem had another horrifying statistic – some child slaves are raped anywhere from 25 to 48
times in one day. “They need a special kind of help and a special kind of care, and that is something
that we aren’t addressing right now for those that come out of this industry,” she said. In recent years,
human rights advocates have sought to bring greater awareness to the ongoing problem of human trafficking, including within the United States. Last summer, more than 100 U.S. cities were part of
“Operation Cross Country VIII,” a crackdown on sex trafficking that was part of an ongoing effort to stop
the exploitation of minors through the Innocence Lost National Initiative. During a week-long series of
enforcement, FBI, state and local authorities recovered 168 child victims of sexual exploitation and arrested 281 suspected pimps. The pressing issue of human trafficking has also drawn the attention of
Pope Francis, who has called for global action on the matter. “In order to eliminate it, we need a mobilization comparable in size to that of the phenomenon itself,” the Pope wrote back in December, calling
on consumers to practice “social responsibility” when they make purchases.
The first International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking is in less than two
weeks – February 8, the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita. Just this past year, the Pontifical Council
for Justice and Peace with the International Union of Superiors General at the Vatican determined that
the Day of Prayer and Awareness would be global. St. Josephine Bakhita was herself a victim of slavery in the 19th century. After she was freed, she entered the Canossian Daughters of Charity where
she served the poor and shared her own story of slavery. “It’s awe-inspiring to think that Catholics from
so many different countries will gather together on the same day to pray for the same cause,” stated
the executive director of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Migration and Refugee Services, Ambassador Johnny Young.
Interview with the Holy Father: "The
Gospel’s message is for everyone, the
Gospel does not condemn the wealthy,
but the idolatry of wealth, the idolatry
that makes people indifferent to the
call of the poor"
Let us stop, please! Therefore, in an attempt to answer your question, I
would say that we should not consider this state of things as irreversible.
Let us not resign ourselves to it. Let us try and build a society and an
economy where man and his welfare are at the center, instead of money'
Can more ethics in economics bring about change, in the form of an
increased consideration for social justice, or is it also right to speculate
about structural changes to the system?
‘First of all, we need to remember that we need ethics in the economy,
and we also need ethics in politics. More than once, various heads of
VATICAN CITY
State and political leaders, whom I have met since my election as bishop
of Rome, spoke to me about this. They told me that we, the religious
The director of La Stampa’s Vatican Insider, Andrea Tornielli, has
leaders, need to help them and give them ethical indications. Yes, the
teamed with the Italian daily’s Vatican beat reporter, Giacomo Gapastor can make his appeals, but I am convinced that we need, as Beneleazzi, to write a book profiling the social teaching of the Church under dict XVI recalled in his encyclicals Caritas in Veritate, men and women
the direction of Pope Francis. The Italian language volume, titled Papa with their arms raised in prayer to God; conscious that the love and sharFrancesco. Questa economia uccide – “Pope Francis: this economy
ing, which engender genuine development, are not a product of our
kills” – closes with an interview with the Holy Father, which the authors hands, but a gift to ask for. At the same time I am convinced that we
conducted in October of 2014, ample excerpts of which appeared in the need these men and women to commit themselves on every level, in
Sunday edition of La Stampa just ahead of the book’s scheduled January society, politics, institutions and the economy, to work for the common
13th release date.
good. We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of
poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only lead to
‘Marxist’, ‘Communist’, ‘Pauperist’. Francis’ words on poverty and
new crises. The markets and financial speculation cannot benefit from
social justice, as well as his frequent calls for concern for the needy,
have drawn criticism and accusations, sometimes expressed with harsh- absolute autonomy. Without a solution to the problems of the poor, we
will not solve the problems of the world. We need projects, mechanisms
ness and sarcasm. How does Pope Francis feel about this? Why is the
and processes to implement better distribution of resources, from the
theme of poverty so prevalent in his teachings?
creation of new jobs to the integral promotion of those who are excluded.’
Your Holiness, is the capitalism of the last decades, in your opinion, an
irreversible system?
Why do Pius XI’s strong and prophetic words, in his encyclical Quadra‘I would not know how to answer this question. I recognize that globali- gesimo Anno, against the international imperialism of money, sound, to
many – even Catholics – so radical and extreme today?
zation has helped many people rise out of poverty, but it has also
ANDREA TORNIELLI - GIACOMO GALEAZZI
damned many others to starve to death. It is true that global wealth is
growing in absolute terms, but inequalities have also grown and new
poverty arisen. What I have noticed is that this system sustains itself
through a culture of waste, which I have already discussed various
times. There is the politics, the sociology and even the attitude of waste.
When money, instead of man, is at the center of the system, when money becomes an idol, men and women are reduced to simple instruments
of a social and economic system, which is characterized, better yet dominated, by profound inequalities. So we discard whatever is not useful to
this logic; it is this attitude that discards children and older people, and
is now affecting the young. I was shocked to learn that, in developed
countries, there are many millions of young people under 25 who are
jobless. I have dubbed them the ‘neither-nor’ youth, because they neither study nor work. They do not study because they do not have the
opportunity to do so, they do not work because there are no jobs. But I
would also like to highlight an aspect of the culture of waste; that which
leads people to discard babies through abortion. I am shocked by the low
birth rates here in Italy; this is how we lose our link to the future. The
culture of waste also leads to a hidden euthanasia of older people, who
are abandoned. Instead of being considered as our memory, our link to
our own past and a source of wisdom for the present. Sometimes I ask
myself what the next waste will be. We need to stop before it is too late.
‘Pius XI only sounds extreme to those who feel struck by his words and
hit where it hurts by his prophetical condemnations. But the Pope was
not exaggerating, he told the truth after the economic and financial crisis
of 1929, and, as a good mountaineer, he saw things as they were, he
could look far. I am afraid that those who still feel called to question by
Pius XI’s rebukes are the ones who have gone too far…’
Are both the pages of the Populorum Progressio, where it says that private property is not an absolute right but rather subordinate to the common good, and the pages of the Catechism of St. Pius X, who lists,
among the sins that cry to Heaven for vengeance, the oppression of the
poor and defrauding laborers of their wage, still valid?
‘Not only are they still valid, but the more time goes on, the more I find
they have been proved by experience.’
Your words about the poor as the ‘flesh of Christ’ have shocked many
people. Are you bothered by the accusation of ‘pauperism’?
continued...
this preferential treatment of the poor entered the official teachings.
Some may think it a novelty, whilst instead it is a concern that stems
‘Before Francis of Assisi came, there were the ‘Pauperists’; there were
from the Gospel and is documented even from the first centuries of
many Pauperist streams in the Middle Ages. Pauperism is a caricature of Christianity. If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the
the Gospel and of poverty itself. Instead, St. Francis helped us discover Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat
the deep connection between poverty and the way of the Gospel. Jesus
the poor, some would accuse me of giving a Marxist homily. ‘You are
states that we cannot serve two masters, God and wealth. Is this pauper- not making a gift of what is yours to the poor man, but you are giving
ism? Jesus tells us what the ‘protocol’ is, on which we will be judged. It him back what is his. You have been appropriating things that are meant
is the one we read in chapter 25 of Matthew’s Gospel: I was hungry, I
to be for the common use of everyone. The earth belongs to everyone,
was thirsty, I was in prison, I was sick, I was naked and you helped me, not to the rich.’ These were St. Ambrose’s words, which Pope Paul VI
clothed me, visited me, took care of me. Whenever we do this to one of used to state, in Populorum Progressio, that private property does not
our brothers, we do this to Jesus. Caring for our neighbor; for those who constitute an absolute and unconditional right for anyone, and that no
are poor, who suffer in body and in soul, for those who are in need. This one is allowed to keep for their exclusive use things superfluous to their
is the touchstone. Is it pauperism? No, it is the Gospel. Poverty takes us needs, when others lack basic necessities. St. John Chrysostom stated
away from idolatry and from feeling self-sufficient. Zacchaeus, after he that ‘not sharing your goods with the poor means robbing them and
met Jesus’ merciful gaze, gave half of his fortune away to the poor. The taking away their life. The goods we own are not ours but theirs’. (…)
Gospel’s message is for everyone, the Gospel does not condemn the
As we can see, this concern for the poor is in the Gospel, it is within the
wealthy, but the idolatry of wealth, the idolatry that makes people indif- tradition of the Church, it is not an invention of communism and it must
ferent to the call of the poor. Jesus said that, before we offer our gift
not be turned into an ideology, as has sometimes happened before in the
upon the altar, we must reconcile with our brother to be in peace with
course of history. The Church, when it invites us to overcome what I
him. I think that, by analogy, we can extend this request to being in
have called ‘the globalization of indifference’, is free from any political
peace with these poor brothers.’
interest and any ideology. It is moved only by Jesus’ words, and wants
to offer its contribution to build a world where we look after one another
and care for each other.’
You highlighted the continuity with the tradition of the Church in its
concern for the poor. Can you give us some examples of this?
Interview with the Holy Father:
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'A month before he opened the Second Vatican Council, Pope John
XXIII said ‘The Church shows itself as it wishes to be, everyone’s
Church, and particularly the Church of the poor.’ In the following years,
St. Vincent de Paul Society & Parish Social Ministry
(Outreach)
The complimentary blood pressure check sponsored by Duane Reade was postponed because of the bad
weather. It will be held this coming Thursday, February 5, between 10am and 12pm. If you would like a
free blood pressure check, come to the Outreach Office next to the church on Thursday morning.
So many of you answer the call to help those in need that is truly inspiring. We count on you to continue.
This week the pantry is in need of:
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Tuna
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Instant potatoes
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Yams
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Coffee
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Cake mixes
Thank you for all your help.
UPCOMING EVENTS
& NEWS
The Holy Name Society
Will hold its monthly Communion
Breakfast at the 8:30am Mass next
Faith Formation News
First Year Confirmation Level 7 Mass
Sunday, February 8th, 2015. There will We ask our parish community to pray for our First Year Candibe a business meeting following in the dates as they continue their Confirmation Journey. A special
Fagan Residence Building basement
immediately following Mass. All men of
the Parish are welcome to join.
There are no dues.
blessing will be given to those students present at the 11am Mass
today in the Sienna Center at St. Catherine’s.
Level 2 Mass
All second grade students and their families are invited to attend
Mass on:
Sunday, February 8, 2015
9:30 am
Sienna Center at St. Catherine’s
Faith Matters
Faith Matters will take the place of Grade Level Parent Meetings and will be once a month on Thursdays. Mom, dad or both,
other family members (if you don’t have a babysitter, you can
bring the kids) come and have some spiritual renewal and rejuvenation for one hour. These are stressful times. We will
always have different topics and these will be advertised on our
website. Faith Matters—we need it today more than ever.
Come together and let’s share our Faith
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