TWENTY-SIXTH SUNDAY in ORDINARY TIME

OCTOBER 1, 2006

(M - Memorial, A - Anniversary)

 

MONDAY, OCTOBER 2

THE GUARDIAN ANGELS

                     6:45           THE WENZEL FAMILY

                       9:00           HOPE BECKER--M

                                            req. by the Becker & McKnight Families

                                 

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3

                 6:45 JEAN (ANN) DE GEORGE--M

                        req. by Angelo & Jo Bruno

                 9:00 ROBERT HALL--M

                        req. by Ted & Mary Zink

 

   WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4

FRANCIS of ASSISI, religious

                 6:45 JOHN and HELEN MC IVOR--M

                        req. by John McIvor

                 9:00 JOHN DOHERTY--A

                        reg. by Dorothy Doherty

                       

      THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5

                 6:45  SPECIAL INTENTION for the LIVING:

                          TONI DELMONTE, CONRADO PANGILINAN and EMERENCIANA QUIRIT

                                req. by Brian & Terry Furlong

                 9:00 BEA FARNAN--M

                           req. by Martha & Jimmy Bairaktaris

 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6

BRUNO, priest

BL. MARIE-ROSE DUROCHER, virgin

                 6:45     MARY A. and EDWARD S. LADIN and ROSE DUDEK--M

                                                req. by the Ladin Family

                 9:00    ANTOINETTE and LOUIS MANGIERI— M

                                                  req. by Carmela Mangieri

                                             

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7

OUR LADY of the ROSARY

             9:00 OLIVIA TUCKER--A

                        req. by the Bisordi Family

             5:30 HOWARD FITZ GERALD—M

                    req. by the FitzGerald Family

                   

SUNDAY, October 8

                 7:30 FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE PARISH

                 9:00 GUIDO GULLA--M

                                                    req. by the Gulla Family

               10:30 EDWARD GARBA--M

                                                   req. by Martha Garba

               12:00 FRANK GIACOMO--A

                                                    req. by Lucille Giacomo

    5:00 BARBARA HORNIG--M

                                       req. by Jeanne & Ed Van Valen

          

         

PRAYERFUL REMEMBRANCES

Your prayers are requested for the sick at home, and in the hospitals, especially: Jenna Mussolini, Teresa Cervera, Frank Maiola, Aileen O’Brien, Carlo Ventimiglia, Sister Margaret Coakley, Pat Bonner, Ed Lenard, Pam Hissey, Tricia Eigo, Steve Schulz, Dana Infelice, Patrice McAuliffe, Francis “Charlie” Abrahamsen, Lisa Scholl, Frank Diaz-Balart, Alice Nasta, Mildred Traub, Catherine Ann Brennan, Mary & Tony Fraioli, Hank Lawlor, Sarah Butler, Mimi Cosgrove, Kristen Long, Patrick Lamont, Elizabeth Kim, Eloise Selby, Thomas M. Lamb, for our service men and women at home and abroad; for the faithful departed,  ARTHUR C. PHILLIPS, JR., VIOLET FRASCELLA, and  REV. MSGR. JOHN  D. BURKE  and all those who have  no one to pray for them; and for the honored dead of the Armed Services.

 

 

BANNS of MARRIAGE

I – David Law – Joanna Mastro

 

 

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 2006. The dates for the class are as follows:  Oct 7^th, Nov. 4^th and Dec. 2^nd.

 

10:30 AM MASS MUSIC NOTES

 

 

MINISTRY SUNDAY – OCTOBER 1^st

Today, October 1^st, has been designated as Ministry Sunday in our parish. Representatives of all the various ministries carried out in our parish will be in the auditorium beginning after the 9:00 AM and continuing throughout the morning. Please stop by and learn how you can become an active participant in one or more of our parish’s activities.

 

FOOD BANK NEEDS!!!

To all the faithful people of our parish who bring food items with them each time they come to Mass, this week we are looking for cans of sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce. Thank you all for the generosity you exhibit to those less fortunate than we are.

 

FAMILY MASS

The theme for October 15^th is VIPs (Very Important Priorities)

 

CAR RAFFLE TICKETS

We are selling raffle tickets for the Lexus or $30,000 after all the Sunday masses. Stop by the back of Church and take one or two or even more tickets. Maybe yours will be the winning one!!!

TACHS

To qualify for entrance to almost all of our Catholic High Schools, eighth grader pupils must take the TACHS – Test for Admission in to Catholic High School. The Examination will be held on Thursday, November 9^th. Applications for the Examination must be made by October 26^th. Catholic school pupils will receive applications in their own school. Public school pupils may obtain applications from Catholic High Schools participating in the program or from the parish religious education office. Students may register 7 days a week online via www.tachsinfo.com or via telephone from 8AM to &PM at 1-866-61-2247. Further details may be obtained by calling the TACHS Admission Office at (866) 618-2247.

 

HALLOWEEKEND FAMILY FESTIVAL

Circle your calendars for the weekend of October 27^th, 28^th, and 29^th. The Halloweekend Family Festival Committee is working very diligently to bring the parish another wonderful event for all ages. All parishioners have received a letter in the mail detailing all the activities for the weekend. Please look over the many events and return your form ASAP.

If you did not receive a letter, please call the Rectory and we will send you one. Thank you.

 

CABARET NIGHT at the FESTIVAL

Just a reminder. Tickets for the Cabaret starring our own John Treacy Egan are going very fast. If you plan to attend this very special event, you need to send in your reservations IMMEDIATELY – once we have reached our limit in terms of numbers, we will then have to stop taking reservations. Remember we can ONLY accommodate 280 people.

 

SILENT AUCTIONS DONATIONS for the FESTIVAL

As part of our Halloweekend Family Festival, there will once again be a silent auction during the Cabaret Night. The Auction Committee is seeking donations from our parish families. We are accepting all kinds of donations – large and small. Sporting event tickets, gift certificates, electronic equipment, Broadway show tickets and home goods are just a few suggestions. Donations can be dropped off at the Rectory (Please mark “Silent Auction” and put your name and phone number on the item) or contact Patty Fink at 834-3948.

 

WOMAN OF SPIRIT AWARD LUNCHEON

The St. Augustine’s Ladies Auxiliary and the Sts. John & Paul Women’s Guild announce the 16^th Annual Sylvia Muldoon Woman of Spirit Luncheon to honor Sister Beth Dowd, O.S.U. The Luncheon will be held on Thursday, October 12th, at the Bonnie Briar Country Club at 11:30 am.

For reservations, please call Suzanne Carpenter at 834-3109 (29 Hazel Lane, Larchmont NY10538). The cost of a ticket is $35.00 per person and check should be made out to “The Woman of Spirit Award Luncheon”.

 

BEREAVEMENT GROUP

Coxe and Graziano funeral Home in Mamaroneck is pleased to announce that their bereavement program will resume in the fall. The program is led by Theresa Agliardo who holds a Certificate in Thanantology and worked as a counselor at The Calvary Hospital. The program is at no cost and light refreshments will be served. To learn more about the program or to reserve, please contact Jennifer Graziano at 698-5968.

 

SPIRITUAL REFLECTION EVENING

This will be a delightful evening as Lorna Kelly shares her spiritual journey with us. She is the author of “The Camel Knows the Way”. This will tale place at St. Augustine’s auditorium on Wednesday, October 11^th, at 7:30 PM.

 

ARCHDIOCESAN POLICY on CHILD PROTECTION

Anyone who needs to report an alleged incident of sexual abuse of a minor by a priest, deacon, religious or lay person serving in the Archdiocese of New York is asked to contact Monsignor Desmond O’Connor at 212-371-1000x2931 or Sr. Eileen Clifford, O.P. at 212-371-100x2949. Both may also be reached via email at victimassistance@arch.org. Information can also be found on the Archdiocesan website, hhtp://ny-archdiocese.org. In keeping with the Archdiocesan policy regarding sexual abuse of minors, the information is provided to ensure that our children remain safe and secure.

 

 

 

 

 

SJP CYO BASKETBALL FIRST PRACTICE

BOYS                                        

Grade

5 – Monday, Oct. 2^nd @7:00 PM

6 – Tuesday, October 3^rd @ 6:00 PM

7 – Sunday, October 1^st @ 4:00 PM

8 – Sunday, October 1^st @ 6:00 PM

 

GIRLS

GRADES

5 – Thursday, October 12^th @4:00 PM

6 – Tuesday, October 3^rd @ 7:30 PM

7 – Tuesday, October 3^rd @4:30 PM

8 – Friday, October 13^th @ 4:00 PM

 

Registration continues on October 1^st – Ministry Sunday – in the gym from 9:30AM to 1:00 PM

 

THE PASTOR’S COLUMN

   October has been known for the last few decades as Respect Life Month. Our bishops have encouraged all of us to focus on the sacredness of human existence. Whenever I note its celebration, my mind quickly drifts back to the final pastoral letter of the Servant of God, Terence Cardinal Cooke. Knowing that his time on earth was in its final hours, though he was in pain, our shepherd wrote to his people: “How often we speak of ‘the gift of life,’ God’s gift of life to us, His sons and daughters. What a beautiful phrase! How filled with meaning it is! In the Book of Genesis, we read of the origin of this gift: ’So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created Him; male and female, He created them.’ It is at times when life is threatened – such as times of serious illness – that the Lord gives us a special grace to appreciate ‘the gift of life’ more deeply as an irreplaceable blessing which only God can give from conception until death and at every moment in between, it is the Lord Our God Who gives us life, and we, who are His creatures, should cry out with joy and thanksgiving for this precious gift. We are made in God’s image and likeness, and this fact gives us a unique dimension to ‘the gift of life.’ We have even more reason to be grateful. It is tragic that in our time, concepts which are disastrous to the well-being of God’s human family – abortion, euthanasia and infanticide – are falsely presented as woeful and even respectable solutions to the human family and social problems. Human life is sometimes narrowly viewed in terms of being inconvenient or unwanted, unproductive or lacking arbitrarily imposed human criteria. From the depths of my being, I urge you to reflect on this anti-life, anti-child, anti-human view of life and to oppose with all your strength the deadly technologies of life – destruction which daily result in the planned death of the innocent and the helpless. Together we must search for ways to demonstrate this conviction in our daily lives and in our public institutions. In doing so, we must never be discouraged or give up. Too much is at stake – ‘the gift of life’ itself. The ‘gift of life’, God’s special gift, is no less beautiful when it is accompanied by illness or weakness, hunger or poverty, mental or physical handicaps, loneliness or old age. Indeed, at these times, human life gains extra splendor as it requires our special care, concern and reverence. It is in and through the weakest of human vessels that the Lord continues to reveal the power of His love… With God’s help, I have tried to encourage and promote a Respect Life attitude throughout our nation. I have pleaded with you to pray and to be active in the many efforts for the enhancement and the protection of human life at every stage of existence… I call on you to rededicate your efforts for the sanctity of all human life and to work to counteract the contemporary threats to life. I urge you to increase and to strengthen the programs in our parishes and communities for the poor, the elderly, the handicapped, the rejected, the homeless, the suffering, the unwanted, the unborn… At this grace filled time of my life, as I experience suffering in union with Jesus Our Lord and Redeemer, I offer gratitude to Almighty God for giving me the opportunity to continue my apostolate on behalf of life. I thank each one of you, my sisters and brothers in the Archdiocese of New York and throughout our nation, for what you have done and will do on behalf of human life. May we never yield to indifference or claim helplessness when innocent human life is threatened or when human rights are denied. With you, I entrust our efforts to the care of Our Lady who, from the moment of her Immaculate Conception to the present, has been the refuge for the poorest and the most forgotten among God’s people. I assure you of a special share in the prayerful offerings of my sufferings to the Father, in union with Jesus and through the Spirit of Love Who is ours in abundance.”

   These words of our Archbishop are both a chastement to our society and a challenge to the faith community. In the twenty-three years since their initial proclamation many reversals have been experienced in the pursuit of a ‘culture of life.’ States have passé laws which both ration medical care as well as permit “doctor – assisted-suicide.”  An abortionist was imprisoned as a “butcher” not for the thousands of lives he took but because he botched a procedure which cause a child to survive but maimed. The plight of the poor has worsened as here at home: quality housing is sparse and overseas famine rages throughout the Third World. Violence and injustice has escalated in our streets and in our world. Technology, all too often, has been utilized not to enhance humanity but to depersonalize it.

   As in most areas of endeavor, we cannot be satisfied with looking at the glass half-empty. The late prelate would rejoice in recognizing this parish’s efforts in providing food to the hungry on a regular basis. Very often the gift of blood is given that others might live. We cannot forget the efforts of our young people as they conduct Breakfast Runs to the City. How many times funds have been sought and received for those who have fallen on hard times. Not just through the parish and its programs do the people defend and advance the appreciation for God’s precious gift of life.

  Next week, we will host a speaker from Good Counsel. He will seek our continued support for mothers and children in the care of Father Benedict Groeschel, Christopher Bell, and their colleagues. Daystar, which is on the campus of Saint Vincent’s hospital in Harrison, benefits from hours of dedicated labor and support from many members of Saints John and Paul Church. Did you know that is the only place in the nation caring for a population experiencing psychological difficulties as well as pregnancy. We note also parishioners’ involvement with Saint Christopher’s inn run by the Graymoor Friars. For almost one hundred years, this religious order has recovered the lives of men who have been ignored by others and who had abandoned hope. Habitat for Humanity is yet another organization which has been assisting the vulnerable in our community with the assistance of members of our parish.

   May all of us respect life not just in the abstract but in the performance of concrete acts.

Jesus vivat,

Fr. Brian