FOURTEENTH
SUNDAY in ORDINARY TIME
JULY
8, 2007
(M -
Memorial, A - Anniversary)
6:45 ROBERT J. KREBBS—M
req. by the Clergy & the
People of Sts. John & Paul Parish
9:00 DOTTIE SMITH--M
req. by Nancy Hardart
TUESDAY, JULY 10
6:45 CARL A. LAMBIASI--M
req. by Mr. & Mrs. Kevin
Garvey
9:00 DOTTY SMITH--M
req. by Audrey McAuliffe
WEDNESDAY, JULY 11
BENEDICT,
abbot
6:45 AGNES DORAN--M
9:00 GRACE
M. FEENEY--M
reg. by Matthew Feeney
THURSDAY, JULY 12
6:45 THE FONTANA
FAMILY
9:00 NICOLA
GIGANTE--M
req. by the Carola Schonanda Family
HENRY
6:45 MICHAEL FRANCELLA--M
req. by the Clergy
& the People of Sts. John & Paul Parish
9:00 FRANK M. ABBATE--M
req. by Fr. Joseph Nahas
BL. KATERI TEKAKWITHA,
virgin
9:00 VERA and PETER KREBBS--M
req. by Mary Jane & Paul Krebbs
5:30 SUSAN
SWEENEY--M
req. by Lucille Novotny
SUNDAY,
JULY 15
7:30 RONALD
DOHERTY--M
req. by Muriel & Allen Flood
9:00 WILLIAM
J. NEALON--M
req. by Bea & Frank Dinger
10:30 WINIFRED
PIERCE--A
req. by the Family
12:00 FOR
THE PEOPLE OF THE PARISH
5:00 REV.
JOSEPH L. WATERS, SSJ--M
req. by Mary K. Duffy
& Family
PRAYERFUL
REMEMBRANCES
Your prayers are requested for
the sick at home, and in the hospitals, especially: Rose Bialon, Richardson
Carrett, Marina Christopher, Ashley M., Terry & Amy Tucker, Grace Welch, Florence Leight, Joseph Maiorama, Jessy Mackey, Charlotte Neuman, Daniel
Patrick Duker, Joan Porrazzo, Lewis B.
Merrifield, III, Kayla Estelle Kelsh, Betty Berrigan, Skylar Bahrenburg, F. Peter O’Hara, Taylor Shea, Ben Pariea, James Curtin, Patricia Kuhr, Theresa
Astorino, Joseph Mileti, Dotty Doherty, Lenny Cavalieri, Jenna Mussolini, Teresa Civetta, Frank Maiola, Aileen
O’Brien, Ed Lenard, Pam Hissey, 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, JAMES CURRY and JOHN J. GARDNER, , 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 (07—01—07) $10,807
Maintenance:
$ 2,867
Attendance: 925
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.
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.
There will be a class
on August 5th.
FOOD BANK
NEEDS
Now that summer is
here, please do not forget to bring a non-perisible food items when you come to
Mass.
CALENDAR of EVENTS for the WEEK OFJULY 8th:
SUNDAY, JULY 8th:
7:00 AM: Breakfast Run
WEDNESDAY, JULY 11th:
10:30 AM SARAH NEUMAN: Mass
RELIGIOUS
EDUCATION REGISTRTION
Classes are currently
being formed for the 2007/08 school year. Please register NOW to ensure prompt
placement.
WELCOME,
FR. DARIUS
Fr. Darius has arrived
and will be part of our parish for the month of July and the beginning of
August. It is so wonderful to have him back.
A LETTER
from the CARDINAL
Dear Father McWeeney,
Permit me to extend my
warmest congratulations to you and the Church of Sts. John and Paul for
exceeding your goal for the 2007 Cardinal’s Annual appeal. Please know how
sincerely grateful I am for your efforts, and allow me to reiterate how
significant you work has been for the Church in New York.
The funds contributed
by your parish are crucial to the success of the 2007 Appeal. As a result of
the generosity shown by your parish family, the Archdiocese has the ability to
continue and strengthen its charitable, educational, and spiritual
undertakings.
Please convey my
deepest appreciation to your parishioners, and be assured that you have a
special place in my prayers.
With heartfelt
gratitude and kindest regards, may I remain,
Very truly yours in
Christ,
Edward Cardinal Egan
KNIGHTS of
COLUMBUS
Reserve your foursome.
Our Annual Golf outing will be held on Monday, September 24th, at
the Pelham Bay Golf Club, check-in & lunch 11:00 – 12:00, shot gun start
12:30pm, dinner at the Davenport, 6:30pm. Golf, cart, lunch, beverages, prizes,
cocktail hour, buffet dinner w/open bar, all for only $175. Bring a foursome if
you can or come alone or with a friend and we will make the foursome. Call
Craig Skolnick to reserve your spot 212-319-0871 or 914-235-2264.
We need your support
so we can continue the good work of our Council; sponsor a golf hole at our
golf outing for only $125.00. You can also show your support by sponsoring the
golf carts, cocktail hour, or golf prize. This is a great way to give to our
council or to advertise your business; contact Craig Skolnick to reserve your
hole sponsorship or for more information; 212-319-0871 or 914-235-2264.
OUR LADY
of Mount Carmel CHURCH
It will hold its
annual “Festa italiana” on July 12th,
13th, 14th, and 15th, each evening from 6:00
pm to Midnight on the Church grounds at 92 South Lexington Avenue, White
Plains.
The “Festa Italiana” features live Italian
and American music and entertainment, an outdoor dance floor, children’s games
and entertainment, great Italian foods and desserts, American fare, espresso
bar, air conditioned casino, and much more. The admission and entertainment are
free.
MARIA
REGINA HIGH SCHOOL 50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION!
Calling all Maria
Regina High School alumnae! Please join us as we celebrate 50 golden years as
the first archdiocesan Catholic high school for girls in Westchester County,
New York. The event will be held on Friday, September 21, 2007, from 6:00 –
10:00 pm at the Westchester Marriott, 670 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY.
Tickets are $110.00 per person. For further information, please contact Nicole
Mitrione, Director of Development, at 761-3300, x-217 or nmitrione@mariaregina.org. Website:
www.mariaregina.org.
RETROUVAILLE
Ratrouvaille is a
weekend and post-weekend program for couples with serious marital difficulties.
Thousands of couples headed for divorce have saved their marriage by
participating in the program. For more information (and a schedule of upcoming
weekends), please contact Fr. Claude Lenehan, OFM at Holy Cross Friary, Bronx,
at 718-378-1170. For more information, go to: www.retrouvaille.org.
THE
PASTOR’S COLUMN
We continue this week our analysis of the
curial statement on “the pastoral care of the road.” Cardinal Martino’s work
can be seen in the following paragraph as a paradigm for all human life and
interactions: “Co-existence is a fundamental aspect of human beings and roads
should therefore be more human. Motorists are never alone when they are
driving, even when they are driving, even when no one is sitting beside them.
Driving a vehicle is basically a way of relating with and getting closer to
other people, and of integrating within a community of people. This capacity
for co-existence, of entering into relationships with others, presupposes
certain specific qualities in a driver: namely self-mastery, prudence, and
courtesy, a spirit of service and knowledge of the Highway Code. Selfless
assistance should also be provided to those who need it, by giving an example
of charity and hospitality.” (30) When we travel from place to place with our
family, we are presented with a mixed blessing. We are grateful for the
presence of our loving spouse. How great it is to share the beauty of nature
and the wonder of man’s accomplishments. But why must he or she always “know a
better way” or point out the fact that the proper exit has been passed? It is
truly pleasurable to witness the awe of our children as they see new places.
But why must they ask: “Are we there yet?” over and over again and why can’t
they just leave their siblings alone? It would be wise to consider that the
driver next to us or ahead of us is having similar feelings of elation and frustration.
In international relations, we recognize the destructiveness of gamesmanship.
Miscalculations cause wars to break out and innocents to lose their lives. Can
we not see that the same is true in relationships of a personal nature. We seek
advantage over another party so that we can be in control and thereby feel
better about ourselves. So many times in the end our efforts are for naught and
we find ourselves alone due to our foolishness. Behind the wheel, the results
could be even more devastating causing injuries or fatalities because we wanted
to “show them”. I would hope that as we walk into a building we would not slam
a door in another’s face. It should be just as much unthinkable not to be kind
enough to allow another into our lane because of their need or the presence of
some road obstruction. If we desire to be “better than another”, then let us
outshine them in good judgment and charity.
Later on this writing connects our behavior
behind the wheel with the believers’ obligation to observe the Mosaic Code:
“The moral responsibility of road users, both drivers and pedestrians, derives
from the obligation to respect the Fifth and Seventh Commandments: ‘Thou shalt
not to kill’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal’. The gravest sins against human life,
deriving from the Fifth Commandment, are suicide and murder, but this
commandment also requires respect for one’s own and other people’s physical and
mental well being. Careless absent –mindedness and negligence are acts that go
against such commandments, and their degree of moral seriousness is measured in
terms of how foreseeable, or to some extent intentional, they are. This means
that, beyond the prohibition of direct killing, wounding or maiming, the Lord’s
commandment forbids any act that might bring about such harm indirectly. The
same goes for any damage caused to one’s neighbor’s goods.” (47) Sanity demands
that none of us waves a gun around. It might go off injuring or killing us or
another person. We must realize as well that misusing an automobile is
tantamount to firing a gun indiscriminately. We must respect the power of both
inanimate objects and the care which must be taken with both. We might say, at
this point, that accidents do happen. Because of an unfortunate set of
circumstances, we might find ourselves in an accident. This is upsetting. It is
inexcusable if we ignore the civil law, divine command, and personal conscience
and drive while we are impaired by alcohol consumption and/or drug use. That is
a fully voluntary act. We must also observe any medical limitations our age and
health might impose. Last year when I was sick, it was a real burden to depend
on others for a ride. I resented the loss of my independence. But to drive when
I lacked the ability to respond correctly to the challenges of safe driving
would have not only been inane but also immoral. It should also be noted that
very often we don’t fully own our vehicles. Not only are they leased but also
when bought they are subject of a bank loan. Using it irresponsibly is taking
what belongs to another and possibly making it unusable by any other party.
This is very clear in the case of our younger parishioners. Though they have
probably used some of their savings to buy their first car, their relatives
have helped them to make their dream, a reality. All of us, additionally, are
aware of the effect of accidents on insurance rates as individuals and part of
an experience group.
We know that in driving as in all
experiences we need and seek heavenly intervention. The document takes up this
subject: “Whilst God is the rock of Christian hope, Catholic devotion has found
many intercessors before Him, His and our true friends, the Angels and Saints
of God, to whom we entrust, ourselves to surpass the dangers of the journey by
divine grace. We recall Saint Christopher (Christ’s Bearer), the presence of
the Guardian Angel, and the Archangel Raphael who accompanied Tobias…, whom the
Church regards as protector of travelers. Also significant are the titles given
to the Blessed Virgin Mary in relation to traveling. Indeed, we invoke her as
the Madonna of the Way, the Pilgrim Virgin, icon of the migrant woman…Resorting
to our Heavenly Intercessors should not make us forget the importance of the
sign of the cross, to be made before setting out on a journey. With this sign,
we put ourselves directly under the protector of the Holy Trinity. Indeed, this
directs us above all to the Father, as origin and destination. In this regard,
we recall the words of the psalm: “For he will command his angels concerning
you to guard you in all your ways.” (58 – 59)
Later in the summer, we will return to this
document for its other salient points on the overall migration of peoples,
especially society’s most vulnerable.
Have a most restful week.
Jesus Vivat,
Fr. Brian