FOURTH
SUNDAY of EASTER
APRIL
29, 2007
(M -
Memorial, A - Anniversary)
PIUS V, pope
6:45 AGNES DORAN--M
9:00 TIMOTHY J. MARA--M
req.
by Maura & Richard Concannon
TUESDAY, MAY 1
JOSEPH the WORKER
6:45 FRANK EHRHARDT, JR.--M
req. by Ralph Santoluquido
9:00 MSGR. ROBERT DELANEY--A
req. by Sts. John & Paul Parish
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2
ATHANASIUS,
bishop, doctor
6:45 CORRINE
PAWLING--M
req. by Parents of K-T
9:00 CARMELA GAGLIARDI--A
reg. by the Family
THURSDAY, MAY 3
PHILIP and
JAMES, apostles
6:45 PAUL and JOHN VENTEMILLIA--M
req.
by Maureen F. Morris
9:00 JOSEPH
SR., JOSEPH, JR. and LOUISE SWIFT--A
req. by the Swift Family
6:45 FRANK LYONS--M
req. by the Family
9:00 MARY KANE MAHON—M
req. by the Shields Family
9:00 THE J. WOODS SWEENEY FAMILY
req. by Robert & Margaret Sweeney
5:30 FOR
THE PEOPLE OF THE PARISH
SUNDAY, MAY
6
7:30 MARGARET
MAGUIRE--M
req. by Amanda Love
9:00 GUIDO
GULLA--M
req. by the Gulla Family
10:30 EDWARD
GARBA--M
req. by Martha Garba
12:00 VINCENZO
CIRILLO--M
req. by Annita Fiorito
5:00 MARGARET
MAGUIRE--M
req. by the Hornig Family
PRAYERFUL
REMEMBRANCES
Your prayers are requested for
the sick at home, and in the hospitals, especially: Ave Christie, F. Peter O’Hara, Taylor Shea, Ben Pariea, James Curtin, Carmella Musumeci, Msgr. Joseph J. Boyd, Ramona Murill, Patricia Kuhr, Theresa Astorino, Joseph Mileti, Dotty
Doherty, Caroline Weldon, Lenny Cavalieri, Jenna Mussolini, Teresa Civetta,
Frank Maiola, Aileen O’Brien, Sister
Margaret Coakley, Ed Lenard, Pam Hissey, Tricia Eigo, Alice Nasta, Mildred Traub, Catherine Ann
Brennan, Sarah Butler, Mimi Cosgrove, Kristen Long, Patrick Lamont, Elizabeth
Kim, for our service men and women at
home and abroad; for the faithful departed, JOE PATA and ELOISE SELBY, and those who have no one to pray for them;
and for the honored dead of the Armed Services.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last week’s collection (04—22—07)
$ 11,356
Attendance: 1,032
The parish of Saints John and Paul thanks you for
your support. We are grateful to our parishioners who use our envelope system.
If you wish to receive Church support envelopes, please call the Rectory at
834-5458.
BANNS of
MARRIAGE
I – Anthony J. Fiducia – Calla DeGennaro
10:30 AM
MASS MUSIC NOTES
In the readings today, we hear about Jesus, the Good Shepherd, and so
it is fitting that the Choral selection is “The Lord Is My Shepherd”, a
contemporary piece by Thomas Matthews based on Psalm 23.
BAPTISM
PREPARATION for PARENTS of INFANTS
To arrange for a
Baptism, please call the rectory and you will be given an appointment with one
of the parish priests.
Water in
the Word
Baptismal
Preparation Session Schedule
All sessions are
offered on the following Saturday mornings from 10 AM – 11:30 AM. Please call
the rectory to attend. We will begin new sessions in 2007. The dates for the upcoming
classes are as follows: FRIDAY, MAY 4th at 7:00 pm,
and June 2nd.
WANT TO
SEE PARISH PHOTOS on THE INTERNET?
Fr. Joe has been
taking pictures of many events in and around the parish – SJP School Pep Rally,
Christmas Show, The Living Rosary, Teen Ski Trip, etc. If you would like to
view any or all of them, please go to http://community.webshots.com/user/joeeno.
FR.
BRIAN’S BIBLE CLASS
Father Brian’s class
on the new Catechism for Adults will resume on Monday, April 30th,
at 7:30 PM in the RMR.
CALENDAR of EVENTS for WEEK OF APRIL 29th:
SUNDAY, APRIL 29th:
7:00 AM: Breakfast Run
10:15 AM SCH: Religious Education classes
2:00 PM AUD: Harrison Players present “You’re
a Good Man, Charlie Brown”
MONDAY, APRIL 30th:
3:00 PM RMR, AUD, & GYM: PSPA after
school activities
7:30 PM GYM & CH: Rehearsal for
Confirmation
7:30 PM RMR: Fr. Brian’s class
TUESDAY, MAY 1st:
3:00 PM AUD & GYM: PSPA after school activities
8:00 PM RMR: K of C Meeting
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2nd:
11:00 AM SARAH NEUMAN: Mass
12:45 PM RMR: 3rd grade Brownies
12:45 PM AUD & GYM: PSPA after school activities
2:50 & 7:30 PM SCH: Religious Education classes
4:00 PM CH: Rehearsal for First Communion
7:00 PM AUD: John Serrano rehearsal
7:30 PM GYM & CH: Rehearsal for Confirmation
THURSDAY, MAY 3rd:
9:30 AM RMR: Interfaith
11:30 AM LARCHMONT SHORE CLUB: Women’s Guild Spring Luncheon
FRIDAY, MAY 4th:
3:00 PM RMR: 4th grade Girl Scouts
7:00 PM RMR: Baptism Preparation class
SATURDAY, MAY 5th:
11:00 AM and 2:00 PM: Confirmation
50th
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY CELERATION at the CATHEDRAL
Couples celebrating
their 50th Wedding Anniversary anytime during 2007 are invited to
attend the annual Golden Wedding Jubilee Mass with Cardinal Egan at the
Cathedral of St. Patrick on Sunday, May 20th, at 2:00 pm.
Pre-registration is required. Please call Charlotte at the Rectory (834-5458)
to register for this celebration. The closing date to register is Friday, May 4th.
WOMEN’S
GUILD NEWS…
AUTHORS of
THE FAITH CLUB
To speak
at
Sts. John
and Paul Women’s Guild Luncheon
On May 3,
2007
The three authors of The Faith Club, the best-selling book about the
interfaith journey of a Muslim, a Christian, and a Jew, will be the guest
speakers at the Women’s Guild Luncheon on Thursday, May 3rd, at
11:30 a.m. at the Larchmont Shore Club.
Reservations are required. Tickets are $40.00 per person and can be
purchased by calling Patricia Howard at 833-2434.
SAVE THE
DATE
The Pastor’s Dinner will
be held on THURSDAY, JUNE 7th, at 7:00 PM at the Larchmont Shore
Club. Mark your calendars and be part of a fun filled evening. All men of the
parish will receive a letter in the mail at the beginning of May with complete
details about the dinner.
TOWN of
MAMARONECK
FLOOD
RELIEF FUND
To assist the many residents of the Town of Mamaroneck and Village of
Mamaroneck who sustained severe losses during the April 15, 2007 Nor’easter,
the Town of Mamaroneck and Village of Mamaroneck have established a fund to
receive monetary donations. With these donations, we will be able to assist
residents of our community to resume their lives after the devastation of the
recent storm.
We will also accept gift cards in any denomination from Stop &
Shop, Payless, Target, Kohl’s CVS and A & P. Please mail or bring your
donation to the Town Center, 740 West Boston Post Road, Mamaroneck, NY 10543 –
Supervisor’s Office. The rectory will also accept these donations and then, in
turn, will bring them to the Supervisor’s Office.
Checks should be made payable to the TOWN of MAMARONECK COMMUNITY SERVICES FLOOD RELIEF FUND.
Donations may be tax deductible. Check with your tax advisor.
No clothes, no furniture, no food please.
Contacts:
Supervisor Valerie Moore O”Keeffe:
381-7805
Town of Mamaroneck
Mayor Phil Trifilette:
777-7704
Village of Mamaroneck
Stephen Altieri: 381-7805
Town of Mamaroneck Administrator
Leonard Verrastro 777-7704
Village of Mamaroneck Manager
CIRCLE
YOUR CALENDARS
SUNDAY, MAY
6th
FOR OUR
SPRING BLOOD DRIVE
Next Sunday, the Sound Shore Medical Center will be here in our gym to
conduct our annul SPRING BLOOD DRIVE. So plan to stop by after Mass and give
the gift of life. It will not only
benefit you but also many others in our parish.
MAMARONECK
HIGH SCHOOL CLASS of 1987 –
20th
REUNION
If you or someone you
know graduated in 1987 from Mamaroneck High School, please contact John Mannix
at johnamannix@optonline.net or
go to www.mhs87.us for information on the
reunion to be held on Saturday, June 2, 2007 at the Larchmont Yacht Club.
STS. JOHN
and PAUL FAMILIES
UNITE to
help FAMILIES of ST. VITO’S
As you know, hundreds
of families were devastated by the April 15th flood. Many
organizations are involved in helping those affected.
Our SJP community has
taken on the needs of 6 families in St. Vito’s parish.
Major items we’d like
to focus on are: mattresses, bedding, furniture, appliances, kitchen items
(toaster ovens, dishes, etc.), and game stations. These items can be new or
used.
We will arrange pick
up of any items.
We thank you for your
generosity and compassion towards our neighbors in need.
If you wish to make a
monetary donation, please make out a check to St. Vito’s and indicate SJP
Families Helping.
Any questions, please
contact Chrissy Fay at 833-9196
THE PASTOR’S
COLUMN
Part II of the post-synodal exhortation Sacramentum
Caritatis begins its discussion of the Eucharist as a mystery to be
celebrated by focusing on the ancient maxim: lex orandi, lex credendi (the law
of worship is the law of belief). “The Synod of Bishops reflected at length on
the intrinsic relationship between eucharistc faith and Eucharistic
celebration…The Eucharist should be experienced as a mystery of faith,
celebrated authentically and with a clear awareness that ‘the intellectus fidei
has a primordial relationship to the church’s liturgical action’…Theological
reflection in this area can never prescind from the sacramental order
instituted by Christ himself. On the other hand, the liturgical action can
never be considered generically, prescinding from the mystery of faith.” (34)
If we commit ourselves to an honest assessment of our experience of worship soon
after the promulgation of the liturgical documents by the Second Vatican
Council and appropriate congregation, we would have to say this reality was not
evident in too many cases. Religious were pictured saying “Mass” with white
bread and cola. Birthday cakes were part of offertory processions. In other
words, the community and its celebration of faith were subjected to
idiosyncratic desires of groups and individuals. The Holy Father’s earlier work
called The Spirit of the Liturgy documented well these deficiencies as
well as challenged all to reconstruct what has been ignored thus far.
In architecture, ceremony, and language,
the Pope asks us to remember that: “The relationship between creed and worship
is evidenced in a particular way by the rich theological and liturgical
category of beauty.” (25) Pedestrian music unnecessarily replaced the Gregorian
composition which the Council Fathers specifically stated should be cherished
and utilized. Classic church construction gave way to the desire that worship
would be just one purpose of a particular building. Through a misreading of the
purposes of liturgical reform, religious art portraying the saints and
significant moments was relegated to a minor position. Our chief shepherd adds:
“The beauty of the liturgy is part of the mystery; it is a sublime impression
of God’s glory and, in a certain sense, a glimpse of heaven on earth. The
memorial of Jesus’ redemptive sacrifice contains something of that beauty which
Peter, James and John beheld when the master, making his way to Jerusalem, was
transfigured before their eyes…Beauty then is not mere decoration but rather an
essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God
himself and his revelation. These considerations should make us realize the
care which is needed if the liturgical action is to reflect its innate
splendor.” (Ibid.)
The manner, in which we participate in the
celebration of the Mass, reveals our faith. We must recognize that it is a work
of the entire community. Each of us must consider that the fruitful celebration
of the liturgy is our principal duty. Bishops, priests, and deacons must not
approach the altar half-heartedly We must not fail to prepare well for our
community prayer. Coming at the last minute, or worse, late to Mass is not
appropriate and must not be indicative of our inner spirit. To those charged
with leadership in community prayer, the Holy Father advises: “The ars
celebrandi should foster a sense of the sacred and the use of outward signs
which help to cultivate this sense, such as, for example, the harmony of the
rite, the liturgical vestments, the furnishings and the sacred space. The
Eucharistic celebration is enhanced when priest and liturgical leaders are
committed to making known the current liturgical texts and norms, making
available the great riches found in the General Instruction of the Roman Missal
and the Order of Readings for Mass. Perhaps, we take it for granted that our
ecclesical communities already know and appreciate these resources, but this is
not always the case. These texts contain riches which have been preserved and
expressed the faith and the experience of the people of God over its 2,000 year
history. Equally important for a correct ars celebrandi is attentiveness to the
various kinds of language that the liturgy employs: words and music, gestures
and silence, movement, the liturgical colors of the vestments. By its very
nature, the liturgy operates on different levels of communication which enable
it to engage the whole human person. The simplicity of its gestures and the
sobriety of its orderly sequence of signs communicate and inspire more than any
contrived and inappropriate additions. Attentiveness and fidelity to the
specific structure of the rite express both a recognition of the nature of
Eucharist as a gift, on the part of the minister, a docile openness to
receiving this ineffable gift.” (40) These sentiments advise all that
individuals must cede their desires in favor of the “Christus Totus.”
This unity of worship takes place in the
very structure of the Eucharistic celebration. “Both in catechesis and in the
actual manner of celebration, one must avoid giving the impression that the two
parts of the rite are merely juxtaposed. The Liturgy of the Word and the Eucharistic
liturgy, with the rites of introduction and conclusion ‘are so closely
interconnected that they form but one single act of worship.’ There is an
intrinsic bond between the word of God and the Eucharist. From listening to the
word of God, faith is born or strengthened…; in the Eucharist the Word made
flesh gives himself to us as our spiritual food. Thus ‘from the two tables of
the word of God and the body of Christ, the church receives and gives to the
faithful the bread of life.’ Consequently, it must constantly be kept in mind
that the word of God, read and proclaimed by the church in the liturgy, leads
to the Eucharist as to its own connatural end.” (44) Having said this, I would
hope that the question: “Which is the most important part of the Mass” can be
put to rest. It is the entity of the Eucharist that binds us to the Real
Presence of Christ in the Word and in the Sacrament.
Before, I conclude this column, may I
express my awe at your tremendous generosity in the recent Cardinal’s Appeal
and in the assistance to our neighbors who have lost so much in the recent
flood. Both efforts are continuing. Please remember all in our prayers as a
most grateful pastor remembers you each day in his.
Jesus vivat,
Fr. Brian