St. Vincent de Paul. Roman Catholic Church DePaul Street Elmont, N.Y A Parish With Heart

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1 St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church 1500 DePaul Street Elmont, N.Y A Parish With Heart Pastoral Staff Rev. Msgr. Richard M. Figliozzi, Administrator Outreach Services (516) Maureen Russell - Parish Social Ministry Coordinator Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 9:00 am to 1:00 pm Parish Office (516) 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) svdp1500@optonline.net Web: For Emergency relating to death or dying after 2 pm call St. Catherine of Sienna - (516) We Celebrate the Eucharist Saturday Vigil 4:00 pm Sunday 8:30 am & 11:30 am 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 Reconcilia on Saturdays immediately after celebration of the Vigil Mass, or by calling the Parish Office for an appointment with a Priest. Sacrament of Bap sm 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. Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time August 18, 2013

2 TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME August 18, 2013 From Msgr. Figliozzi Scriptural Reflection for the Week let us rid ourselves of every burden and sin that clings to us and persevere in running the race that lies before us while keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the leader and perfecter of faith. (see Hebrews 12:1-4) What are your eyes fixed on? Are they fixed on Christ or everything on television and the internet that blinds you to Christ? The writer of the Letter to the Hebrews is very practical and realistic. He knows that the Christian life is a difficult struggle at times between that which is bad for us and that which is good. He knows we need to persevere in avoiding sin and he presents a way for us to think more of goodness than to wallow in sinfulness. He suggests we keep our eyes fixed on Jesus. Do we have pictures of Christ near your television or computer? Do you carry a Rosary with you to hold onto during times of temptation? Do you keep a Bible nearby for a word of encouragement when you need it? Do you get to confession with regularity so you think more of Christ and His Mercy? This is what it means to persevere in running the race! Mass Time Change come September 8th Beginning Sunday, September 8th, the 11:30am Mass will move to 12:30pm. The other two weekend Masses on Saturday at 4pm and Sunday at 8:30am remain the same. As you know, we now share our buildings (church and rectory) with the Syro Malankara Catholic Community of St. John Chrysostom. For the past two years, they have had their liturgy in the church at 1pm on Sundays. Beginning Sept. 8th they will have their liturgy at 10am, necessitating the change of our Mass Time from 11:30am to 12:30pm. As a result of this change, Mass in Italian will no longer be offered at St. Vincent s (at present there are people who attend this Mass). Those wishing to attend Mass in Italian are invited to St. Catherine s the last Saturday of every month (from September to June) in the Sienna Center. I thank everyone for your understanding and cooperation. Last Week s Collection Parish: $4, Thank you for your support. One Final Thought Unless you become like a little child you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. And what is being a little child? It is having a clean heart, a pure heart, a heart that holds Jesus, a heart that can say again and again, Jesus in my heart, I believe in your tender love for me. I love you. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Stewardship.. 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time Reflection In today s second reading, St. Paul encourages us not to grow weary or lose heart, but to persevere in following Jesus. Our willingness to give of ourselves, even in the face of conflict and division, is one way to measure our discipleship. Stewardship We are grateful this week for all stewards in our parish whose faithfulness is evident, despite uncertain times and certain hardships, to provide continued service to their neighbor in need.

3 Announced MASS INTENTIONS for this Weekend Saturday August 17 4:00 pm Enrico & Santa Fazzini; Salvatore Capace; Raimondo Santa & Caterina Liotta Sunday August 18 8:30 am John Black 11:30 am Christopher Scarpelli Announced MASS INTENTIONS for the Week Monday August 19 St. John Eudes 8:30 am Alice Grier Tuesday August 20 St. Bernard 8:30 am Ronnie & Joseph Donahoe Wednesday August 21 St. Pius X 8:30 am Gloria White Thursday August 22 Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary 8:30 am For the People of the Parish Friday August 23 St. Rose of Lima 8:30 am Patricia Neely Saturday August 24 St. Bartholomew 4:00 pm Enrico & Santa Fazzini; Deceased Members of St. Anthony Association It is the policy of St. Vincent s that the intention of each priest who celebrates a parish Mass will be for the intentions listed in the Parish Mass Book. BREAD & WINE For the week of August 18 thru August 24 Is in memory of Our Beloved Father Arthur Luhmann As requested by The Kushner Family JOB OPENING St. Francis Hospital, The Heart Center located in Roslyn, Long Island is seeking multiple nursing assistants. Full time and part time positions are available for day, evening and night shifts. The basic duties include bathing, toileting, feeding, ambulating and turning & positioning patients. No prior experience is necessary. The St. Francis hospital staff is willing to educate the right candidates for these positions. The only requirement is that you are kind, compassionate and able to demonstrate caring behaviors to our hospital patients. Please apply if interested at or call (516) 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.

4 Please Pray for our sick Relatives and Friends: Ashton Reed Kaelyn Judith Donlon Augie Montalbano Jack Musolino Yolanda Dubois Joseph Rischman Arlindo Marcelino; Peter Richards Louis Johnson; Patrick Hanna Rev. Msgr. Thomas Hartman Janet Falco; Diane Drescher; Anthony Gangemella Denise Christ; Ralph Wilson Diane Wilson; Brittany Wilson Raul Matos; Mary Italo Penny Wyckoff; Matthew Noah Karen Hoffmeyer; Tommy Lannan Vincente Mejias; William Ross Michael O Malley; Karen Carlucci Ann Donahue; Thomas McCreight George McAuliffe; Dominick Consolazio Theresa Chevalier; Margaret Elbert Anne Giacalone; Frank Saccone Anthony Scuderi ; Anamarie Van Bergen Barbara Ostipwko Dorie Harbin Carlos Mackey Kennard Harbin; Shane Harbin Frank Bentivegna Veronica Dixon Opal May; Bill Gilbert Maria Rossi Pashayen 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 Rev. David Kruse (Chaplain) John Dzwlewicz, USMC 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 Robert Raver; Frankie Umile Readings for the Week Monday: Jgs 2:11-19; Ps 106:34-37, 39-40, 43ab, 44; Mt 19:16-22 Tuesday: Jgs 6:11-24a; Ps 85:9, 11-14; Mt 19:23-30 Wednesday: Jgs 9:6-15; Ps 21:2-7; Mt 20:1-16 Thursday: Jgs 11:29-39a; Ps 40:5, 7-10; Mt 22:1-14 Friday: Ru 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22; Ps 146:5-10; Mt 22:34-40 Saturday: Rv 21:9b-14; Ps 145:10-13, 17-18; Jn 1:45-51 Sunday: Is 66:18-21; Ps 117:1-2; Heb 12:5-7, 11-13; Lk 13:22-30

5 WHAT IS LITURGY? Part IV By Rev. Johnny R. Mendonca The Paschal Mystery is not confined to Easter alone. We celebrate, we remember, we believe as we participate in liturgy all year. The liturgical year forms one unfolding celebration of this Mystery of our life and identity in Christ. (Somehow the blocks of "Ordinary Time" which form a separate and discontinuous cycle in between the Christmas and Easter/Pentecost Mysteries in our present liturgical year seem inelegant and un-synthetic in this light.) The full meaning of the Christian Passover is therefore incorporation into the Trinitarian Life. In Christ, incarnate, crucified, risen and glorified, we have been adopted into the Godhead, and we are called to become "co-sharers of the divine nature" (2 Peter 1.4). We are in a certain real sense already "divinized" by being filled with the Holy Spirit through the sacramental life. This is also why everything in our liturgy is marked by the invocation of the name of the Blessed Trinity. This sacramental, paschal, Trinitarian liturgy of the Church is therefore more than mere expressive drama. It is the living out, as well as the acting out, of our relationship with Christ to the Father and of our mutual relationships and vocations to one another in His Holy Spirit. It is the administering and celebration throughout time and space of The Great Mystery. And the word "mystery" for a Catholic does not mean something thin and distant, but rather signifies the Reality of realities. It is we who are as yet incomplete, not fully "realized". It is precisely in our approaching and being adopted into the Divine Nature that we are saved from everlasting futility. Liturgy is our participation already in this earthly and temporal existence through sacramental signs, in the mysterious life of the Trinity. The source of power and effectiveness in the sacraments is the Holy Spirit of God who unites heaven and earth in one communion of love. The Holy Spirit animating and empowering the actions of the Church on earth applies throughout history the fruits of Christ's victory already fully experienced by the blessed in heaven. This is the basis of the liturgical life of the Church, which is the true New Testament worship in Spirit and in Truth. So the New Covenant is not just a personal response to the message of salvation, it is an objective relationship of grace ministered to us by Christ through his Body which is the Church. The Church is the sacrament of the Incarnation - the vehicle of the continuing work of Christ in the Spirit. The sacramental economy of the New Testament invites, requires and enables us to respond to God with personal faith and love, but does not simply consist in the shared enthusiasm of believers. The primary purpose of the Church's liturgical worship is not to express our feelings towards God, but to express and impress the Personality of Christ upon us.... To Be Continued PARISH IN HOME PRAYER PROGRAM Host Family/Individual: PILGRIM STATUE OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA... DARDINELLA POBLOCKI Lit - ur- gy n. a form of public worship; a collection of formularies for public worship; the celebration of the Eucharist The Priests from St. Catherine of Sienna who serve us here at St. Vincent de Paul are as follows: Pastor/Administrator Rev. Msgr. Richard M. Figliozzi Associate Pastors Rev. Allan Arneaud Rev. Johnny Mendonca Rev. Charles N. Srion Retired Priest in Residence Rev. William D. O Rourke Deacons Joseph Benincasa Frank Gonzalez

6 Surrogate Mothers, 3 Parents and No Rights for Children Dark Side of the IVF Industry Rome, August 12, 2013 (Zenit.org) Father John Flynn, LC England s Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority is conducting a review of the laws governing surrogacy, according to an Aug. 5 report by the Web site BioNews. The news comes at a time when in recent months a number of concerns have been expressed about the use of surrogate mothers and the introduction of third parties into the conception of children. On Aug. 1, Catholic World Report published a lengthy article by Sister Renée Mirkes titled The Injustices of the Surrogacy Industry. According to Sister Mirkes some 5,238 babies were born in the United States between as a result of surrogacy. The Catholic Church, she explained, has long insisted on the right of a child to be conceived and brought up within marriage. The article noted that studies have shown that surrogate children are at a greater psychological risk than their non-surrogate counterparts. There are also considerable health risks for the surrogate mother, due to practices such as superovulation, hormone treatments, and the implantation of multiple embryos. The risks for mothers was exemplified in a July 29 article published by BioNews regarding Indian surrogate mothers. A survey of 150 surrogate mothers conducted by the Centre for Social Research (CSR) in New Delhi found that the surrogates were only paid 1%-2% of the fee that the commissioning parents pay. The rest of the fee is kept by the agents who arrange the surrogacy. Twiblings The study also found that the surrogate mothers were not properly informed about the contract they were entering into. Moreover, in cases where the commissioning parents do not wish to continue with the pregnancy, due to abnormalities or the sex of the child, an abortion was often performed without consulting the surrogate mother. This is sometimes associated with what the CSR termed twibling, that is, using more than one surrogate mother at a time for the same commissioning parents to increase success rates. If there is a surplus baby then he or she is simply aborted. According to the CSR the surrogacy industry in India generates hundreds of millions of dollars a year in revenue, yet it remains largely unregulated. The problems regarding IVF are not limited to surrogate mothers. Recently news came from England about babies being conceived with the participation of three parents. It involves parents where the mother has defects in the mitochondria, a structure located in the cell's cytoplasm outside the nucleus. The DNA from the mother is placed in the ova of a donor with healthy mitochondria and fertilized with the sperm of the father. The mitochondria contributes some DNA, so the resulting child will have DNA from three parents. The child will have more than 20,000 genes from their parents and 37 mitochondrial genes from a donor, according to a June 27 report by the BBC. "It is a disaster that the decision to cross the line that will eventually lead to a eugenic designer baby market should be taken on the basis of an utterly biased and inadequate consultation, commented Dr. David King, the director of Human Genetics Alert, to the BBC. Margaret Somerville, director of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law in Canada, also criticized the proposed procedure in a July 17 article published by the Ottawa Citizen newspaper. Replacing the DNA located in the mitochondria, she explained, means that all the descendants of the embryo will receive the alteration. Not only are the long-term effects of interfering with the structures of DNA unknown, but the idea of building better babies opens up the door to eugenics and propagates the mentality that we are nothing more than a product of our DNA, she argued. New class of people On the subject of the babies resulting from sperm or ova donation, on Aug. 2 Alana S. Newman, the founder of the Anonymous Us Project, published an article on the Public Discourse Web site titled: What Are the Rights of Donor-Conceived People? The organization describes itself as a safety zone for real and honest opinions about reproductive technologies and family fragmentation. In her essay Newman denounced the fact that we have created a new class of people who are not given the same rights as other people. Slavery has been abolished and society no longer accepts that you can own people, she commented. As well, we know that human beings deeply desire connection with their biological parents and siblings. If we recognize that it s wrong to displace human beings as if they were products, not people, then we should also see that a concept like donor-conception is wrong in principle, she argued. Human babies are not things; their mothers are not ovens, commented Kathleen Parker in an opinion article for the Washington Post on May 25. Titled Surrogacy Exposed, Parker argued that: By turning the miracle of life into a profit-driven, state-regulated industry, the stork begins to resemble a vulture.

7 Eight Graders: Catholic High School Entrance Exam Prep Course offered at Holy Trinity High School in Hicksville. Five 2 1/2 hour Saturday a.m. sessions, each including review in English and Math as well as practice tests. Course begins Sept.14. $250 fee covers instruction and materials. For additional information, visit holytrinityhs.echalk.com or call (516)

8 PRAY TOGETHER Teach us to pray the disciples asked. Reflect on each line of the prayer Jesus taught. Strengthen your relationship with God through daily prayer. Remember the Dates Mark Your Calendar October 12 th 13 th, 2013 Washington D.C. / Baltimore Details to follow shortly December 7, 2013 Trip to New York City Just in time for Christmas April 26 th 27 th, 2014 Overnight trip to Moses at the Sight & Sound Theatre, Lancaster, P.A. Call Mary Ann (516) or (516) Reserve early to guarantee seating! Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. If you know a Town of Hempstead resident who is an outstanding volunteer in the community. Send a resume of the person s volunteer activities, include details on their work... name address & phone number. Also, include your name and number. Deadline: October 18, Make a Difference Awards Office of Communications and Public Affairs Town of Hempstead 1 Washington Street, 2nd Floor Hempstead, NY More info. call:

9 UPCOMING EVENTS & PARISH NEWS St. Vincent DePaul Society & Parish Ministry (Outreach) Below you will see a listing of all the names who will appear on the plaque. If you know of anyone else whose name should appear please call the Outreach and let us know. If you would like to donate toward the expense of the plaque please put your donation in an envelope mark plaque and put it in the basket with your weekly donation. Our pantry is in need of peanut butter, jelly, canned vegetables, juices, sugar and tea. Thank you.