Church of St. Theresa

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1 Church of St. Theresa A Caring Community Reaching Out To One Another in Christ SUNDAY MASSES Saturday at 5:00pm, Sunday at 7:30am, 9:00am(Italian), 10:30am(Family Mass) 12:15pm, 1:30PM(Spanish) & 5:00pm WEEKDAY MASSES Monday thru Saturday 8:00am & 9:00am DEVOTIONS Miraculous Medal & St. Theresa Novenas after Monday morning Masses St. Anthony Novena after Tuesday morning Masses. Thursday 12 Noon Mass & Eucharistic Adoration Exposition & Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament First Friday 6:00pm 2855 St. Theresa Avenue, Bronx, New York CONFESSION Saturdays from 4:00pm to 5:00pm and by appointment BAPTISMS Baptisms take place most Sundays after the 1:30pm Mass. We ask parents to attend the Baptism preparation meeting. Register at the Rectory for the meeting. The date of the Baptism will be discussed at the Baptism meeting. MARRIAGES Call the Rectory at least six months in advance of the wedding date to make an appointment with parish clergy. Rev. Msgr. Thomas Derivan, Pastor Rev. Joseph Ligory, Parochial Vicar Rev. Edmundo Gomez, Retired, Rev. Robert Imbelli, Weekend Associate Rev. Charles Szivos, Parochial Vicar Mrs. Josephine Fanelli, Principal Mrs. Marie McCarrick, Dir. of Religious Education Nadia Papayani, Dir. of Music RECTORY: /1901 WEBSITE: SCHOOL: FAX: rectorystc@aol.com RELIGIOUS EDUCATION:

2 CHURCH OF ST. THERESA, BRONX FROM THE DESK OF FATHER DERIVAN The month of May is the month of Mary. There should no surprise in that. May means the springtime and Our Blessed Mother Mary is the springtime of God s grace. She represents all of the brightness of spring, the budding of new life, the blossoming of springtime hope. We honor Mary in a special way as we prepare next Sunday to celebrate Mother s Day. For the world needs a mother. The world needs a mother s help to move beyond the coldness of winter into the springtime of God s goodness. And the Mother who does that, the Mother who brings out the best in us, the Mother who leads us to her Divine Son is Our Blessed Mother, Jesus mother, but our Mother too. Our gospel today gives us the beautiful words of Jesus. He reminds us to remain in his love. Remain in me, as I remain in you. Whoever remains in me will bear much fruit. But we must admit that sometimes we get distracted by the world we live in. Sometimes we get caught up in ourselves, our problems, our difficulties. We need someone to put us back on the right track, to show us the way. And that someone is the same one who has helped the Church since its earliest days, the same one who has helped Christians of every time and place to stay close to Jesus. And that someone, of course, is Our Mother Mary. Next week on May 13, we celebrate the feast of Our Lady s appearance at Fatima. In 1917 Our Blessed Mother appeared to three peasant children in the little Portuguese village of Fatima. The three children, Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco, were not exceptional as far as this world is concerned. And perhaps for that reason Our Lady chose to appear to them, asking them to pray for sinners, to pray for conversion, and particularly to pray the rosary for peace. Countless miracles have happened at Fatima, but perhaps no miracle was as powerful as one that happened of the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima in It did not happen at Fatima itself; it happened in Rome in St. Peter s Square. Many of you will remember that day thirtyseven years ago when our late Holy Father, now St. John Paul II was greeting pilgrims assembled in St. Peter s Square and was shot by a wouldbe assassin. The Pope was severely wounded. But even as he struggled to live, he uttered the two Latin words that he had chosen as his motto, Totus Tuus, Totally yours, words addressed to Our Mother Mary. From his earliest years, particularly after the death of his own mother, Pope John Paul had put his life in Mary s hands; now on that tragic day when someone tried to take his life, he put his life in Mary s hands again. And Our Lady proved a true mother. The bullet did not damage any serious organs, just missing them so closely. Later on the Pope would say that one hand had shot the bullet, but another hand had guided its direction. An assassin had shot the bullet, but Mary s hand kept that bullet from ending the Pope s life. A year later on May 13, 1982 Pope John Paul visited Fatima to give thanks to Our Lady for his miraculous recovery and he placed the bullet used in that assassination attempt in the crown of Our Lady s statue at Fatima to remind the world of Mary s love and care. Few of us will have the same dramatic experience of Mary s help that Pope John Paul had. But we will have her motherly care nonetheless. She will help us to get through our winters and move on to our springs. She will help us to remain in the love of Jesus, even when the world tries to distract us. In our seminary, there is a statue in the very middle of the seminary buildings. The whole seminary surrounds it. It is a statue of Our Blessed Lady with her arms outstretched, embracing us in her love. And the inscription on the statue says simply, Monstra te esse mater, Show yourself to be our Mother. And she will. She will show herself to be Our Mother. She will never let us down. She will be Our Mother not only in May not only on Mother s Day, but always. Let us turn to Our Mother today. Let us pray for all mothers, those who are here on earth and those who are praying for us from their place in heaven. Let us put our mothers in the hands of Our Blessed Mother, the Mother of us all.. When we think of Mary, I always think of that beautiful poem in her honor. Let us offer it as our prayer for mothers, our prayer to Our Mother on this day: Lovely Lady, dressed in blue, teach me how to pray. God was just your little boy. Tell me what to say. Did you lift Him up sometimes, gently on your knee? Did you sing to Him the way my mother sings to me? Did you hold his hand at night? Did you ever try telling him stories of the world? O, and did He cry? Do you think He really cares if I tell Him things, little things that happenand do the angels wings make a noise? Does He understand me now? Tell me. For you know. Lovely Lady, dressed in blue, teach me how to pray, God was just your little boy and you know the way. Father Thomas B. Derivan ASCENSION THURSDAY This Thursday is Ascension Thursday when we commemorate Our Lord s return to His Father in heaven forty days after Easter. It is a holyday of obligation. Masses on Ascension Thursday are as follows: 8AM, 9AM, 10:30AM and 12 Noon. There will also be an evening Mass at 7:30PM on Wednesday, the vigil of the Feast which suffices for the holiday obligation. HANDICAP ENTRANCE TO THE CHURCH The side entrance to the Church on Pilgrim Avenue will be open every Sunday for anyone who is handicapped or in a wheelchair. Also this same entrance will be opened every weekday until 9:30AM. MAY CROWNING CEREMONY TODAY A tradition in the Church has been the crowning of the statue of Our Blessed Mother during May, which (along with October) is Mary s month. We will crown the statue of Our Lady at the 10:30AM Family Mass this Sunday. The children who received First Holy Communion on Saturday will especially honor Our Blessed Mother during that Mass.

3 SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER MAY 6 BLESSED ANNA ROSA GATTORNO b. October 14, 1831, Genoa, Italy d. May 6, 1900, Rome Italy Rosa married at twentyone, and for six years she was a happy wife and mother. Then, after the birth of her third child, a sudden illness left her firstborn, Carlotta, deaf and mute; her husband died; and she lost her infant son. These tragedies only strengthened the widowed Rosa s conviction that God was calling her to make a total gift of self. Rosa felt called to found a new and innovative congregation called the Daughters of St. Anne, Mother of Mary Immaculate. Members would serve the sick of either sex and teach in a coed elementary school. This would mean separation from her surviving son and daughter, to whom she was devoted. She consulted with Pius IX, who urged Rosa to begin immediately, adding: This Institute will spread in all parts of the world as swiftly as the flight of the dove. God will take care of your children; you must think of God and His work. Rosa entrusted her children to relatives and officially founded the Daughters in In spite of Pius IX s encouragement, it took Rosa twentysix years to get Church bureaucrats to recognize the Daughters as a religious order. Among other issues, they objected to her plan to admit widows, ignoring the fact that she herself was a widow. Long and heated negotiations did not keep Rosa from sending her Daughters to missions all over Italy and South America, until at one point the Sacred Congregation annulled the Daughters charter and threatened to deprive them of the sacraments. Calmer heads finally prevailed, and in 1892 Rosa won approval of her Rule. Today thirtyfive hundred Daughters continue her mission on three continents. Drawing her strength form almost constant prayer, Rosa advised: Prayer is the key to grace: it opens up the Lord s treasures. MAY 7 SAINT ROSA VENERINI b. February 9, 1656, Viterbo, Italy d. May 7, 1728, Rome Italy After the death of her fiancé, Rosa entered a contemplative convent, but that quiet life was not for her. She returned home and looked after a younger brother and sister until they were on their own. At twentyfour, finding herself living alone, she began to invite local women into her home to pray the Rosary. Rosa discovered that many of her friends knew almost nothing about their faith, and most could not read or write. Her gift for teaching them led her to establish the first public school for girls in Italy and to train the Pious Teachers (Maestre Pie Venerini) who joined her. Rosa was determined to reach young women who had no access to quality education. As the Venerini Institute expanded, Cardinal Barbarigo of Montefiascone invited Rosa to open schools in his diocese, and to train Lucy Filippini (March 25) in her methods. Barbarigo would have gladly kept Rosa there, but she cherished her independence and refused to be tied to one diocese. Determined to go wherever her schools were needed, Rosa traveled through remote hill towns on a mule and lived on alms, even while sometimes being harassed by those who opposed her innovations. Priests worried that she was usurping their power and noblemen disapproved of her efforts to educate the lowly, but Rosa never abandoned her motto : Educate to set free. Her spiritual daughters, the Venerini Sisters, have been engaged in various ministries in the United States since Today they are also at work in India, Europe, Africa, and South America. As she lay dying, a priest asked if Rosa wanted to pray to God to restore her health so that she could serve Him a little longer. She replied: Father, I find myself so completely attached to his divine will that I desire neither to live nor to die. I wish to live so long as he desires and I wish to serve him for as long as he desires and no longer. POPE FRANCIS AND NURSES This week is designated as Nurses Week. As we observe this week, it is appropriate to present this article from the Vatican press about the importance of nurses: Speaking to a group of nurses, Pope Francis thanked them for their valuable work and paid a tribute to the Dominican nun who saved his life when he was a young man. [She was] a good woman, even brave, to the point of arguing with the doctors. Humble, but sure of what she was doing, he said March 3. Francis told a brief story from when he was just 20 years old in Argentina. He was ill and close to dying, he said, when Sr. Cornelia Caraglio, who was a nurse from Italy working in Argentina, argued with the doctors about his treatment, and thanks to those things [she suggested], I survived. The Pope told the story to help illustrate the importance of the profession of nursing, saying many lives, so many lives are saved thanks to you! The role of nurses in assisting the patient is truly irreplaceable, the Pope said. Like no other, the nurse has a direct and continuous relationship with patients, takes care of them every day and listens to their needs. Pope Francis spoke to members of the Federation of Professional Nursing Colleges, Health Assistants, and Child Wardens in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican. Nurses, he said, are constantly engaged in the act of listening, in order to understand the needs of their patient, no matter what he or she is going through. He reminded them that it isn t enough to merely rely on protocol, but that their job requires a continuous and tiring effort of discernment and attention to the individual person. This makes the profession a real mission, and nurses experts in humanity, he said. This is particularly important in a society which often leaves weaker people on the margins, only giving worth to people who meet certain criteria or level of wealth, he noted. The Pope also told them that the sensitivity they acquire through their daily contact with patients makes them promoters of the life and dignity of people. Be attentive, he continued, to the desire, sometimes unexpressed, of spirituality and religious assistance, which represents for many patients an essential element of sense and serenity of life, even more urgent in the fragility due to illness. He also acknowledged the difficulty of the profession with its risks and tiring shifts. Because of the demands on nurses, he encouraged patients to have patience with them, making requests without demanding, and also offering a smile.

4 MAY 6, 2018 WHY CATHOLICS SAY THE ROSARY One of the most widely practiced and spiritually engaging Catholic devotions is the Rosary. Identified as a Marian prayer because of its repetition of Hail Marys it is in fact a series of meditations (the mysteries) built around the life, death, and Resurrection of Christ and the Church s teachings regarding His mother. The Rosary as we know it was developed in the Middle Ages. It evolved out of an ancient practice in which people who could not read Scripture recited 150 Our Fathers for the 150 Psalms. Strings of beads, called paternosters, were used to keep track of the prayers. Over time, this practice merged with the Scriptural greeting to Mary (Hail Mary, full of grace ) and with the meditations on the lives of Christ and Mary. One can say the Rosary without using a rosary, but the beads help keep one s place and dispose one to keep focused on prayer. People pray the Rosary in all sorts of environments: in quiet contemplation, while traveling, while exercising, with their families, or with an audiotape accompaniment. In groups or in a family, one person can say the first half of each prayer, while others respond with the second half. When one prays the Rosary, it is important to focus not on the quantity of prayer, but on its depth. In praying the four sets of mysteries the Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful, and Glorious there is a profound encounter with the central truths of Revelation. The Rosary is, at its heart, a biblical prayer, which is why Scripture verses are often used for meditation with each mystery. (From Our Sunday Visitor) PRAYER TO OUR BLESSED MOTHER WRITTEN BY POPE FRANCIS Mary, Virgin and Mother, you who, moved by the Holy Spirit, welcomed the word of life in the depths of your humble faith: as you gave yourself completely to the Eternal One, help us to say our own yes to the urgent call, as pressing as ever, to proclaim the good news of Jesus. Filled with Christ s presence, you brought joy to John the Baptist, making him exult in the womb of his mother. Brimming over with joy, you sang of the great things done by God. Standing at the foot of the cross with unyielding faith, you received the joyful comfort of the resurrection, and joined the disciples in awaiting the Spirit so that the evangelizing Church might be born. Obtain for us now a new ardour born of the resurrection, that we may bring to all the Gospel of life which triumphs over death. Give us a holy courage to seek new paths, that the gift of unfading beauty may reach every man and woman. Virgin of listening and contemplation, Mother of love, Bride of the eternal wedding feast, pray for the Church, whose pure icon you are, that she may never be closed in on herself or lose her passion for establishing God s kingdom. Star of the new evangelization, help us to bear radiant witness to communion, service, ardent and generous faith, justice and love of the poor, that the joy of the Gospel may reach to the ends of the earth, illuminating even the fringes of our world. Mother of the living Gospel, wellspring of happiness for God s little ones, pray for us. Amen. Alleluia! PETITION BOOK Have you noticed our Petition Book in the vestibule of the Church? Every Saturday before the 5:00PM Mass, the petitions entered into the book for that week are brought up to the altar of the Blessed Mother, where they remain for all the weekend Masses. Please pray for these intentions. Please put only the names of the sick and deceased on this list. BIG CITY BINGO/TRICKY TRAY EVENT FRIDAY, MAY 11, 7:00PM BYOF & BYOB (Bring Your Own Food and Beverage) ****Coffee & Dessert will be served and included**** FYI: A tricky tray is a fundraiser in which items are displayed on tables, with a corresponding ticket box next to each item. Bidders walk around and browse all the gifts, bidding their tickets on favored items as they go. At the end of the event, a winning ticket is drawn from each container. Tickets will be on sale the night of the event Tricky Tray: $25/25 tickets *50/50: 6 tickets for $5 *Birthday Raffle RESERVE YOUR TABLES/SEAT NOW THROUGH RECTORY! ATTENTION: ANGELA STOYKA $30.00 FOR BINGO GAMES WITH 3 GAMES PER CARD COME JOIN THE FUN!!

5 A MESSAGE FROM POPE FRANCIS FOR THIS SUNDAY Today s Gospel John Chapter 15 brings us back to the Last Supper, when we hear Jesus new commandment. He says: This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you (v.12). Thinking of his imminent sacrifice on the cross, He adds: Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do what I command you (v.1314). These words, said at the Last Supper, summarize Jesus full message. Actually they summarize all that He did: Jesus gave His life for His friends. Friends who did not understand Him, in fact they abandoned, betrayed and denied Him at the crucial moment. This tells us that He loves us, even though we don t deserve His love. Jesus loves us in this way! Thus Jesus shows us the path to follow Him: the path of love. His commandment is not a simple teaching which is always abstract or foreign to life. Christ s commandment is new because He realized it first, He gave His flesh and thus the law of love is written upon the heart of man (cf. Jer 31:33). And how is it written? It is written with the fire of the Holy Spirit. With this Spirit that Jesus gives us, we too can take this path! It is a real path, a path that leads us to come out of ourselves and go towards others. Jesus showed us that the love of God is realized in love for our neighbor. Both go handinhand. The pages of the Gospel are full of this love: adults and children, educated and uneducated, rich and poor, just and sinners all were welcomed into the heart of Christ. Therefore, this Word of God calls us to love one another, even if we do not always understand each other and do not always get along...it is then that Christian love is seen. A love which manifests even if there are differences of opinion or character. Love is greater than these differences! This is the love that Jesus taught us. It is a new love because Jesus and his Spirit renewed it. It is a redeeming love, free from selfishness. A love which gives our hearts joy, as Jesus himself said: These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full (Jn 15:11). It is precisely Christ s love that the Holy Spirit pours into our hearts to make everyday wonders in the Church and in the world. There are many small and great actions which obey the Lord s commandment: Love one another as I have loved you (cf. Jn 15:12). Small everyday actions, actions of closeness to an elderly person, to a child, to a sick person, to a lonely person, those in difficulty, without a home, without work, an immigrant, a refugee. Thanks to the strength of the Word of Christ, each one of us can make ourselves the brother or sister of those whom we encounter. May we have actions of closeness, actions which manifest the love that Christ taught us. May our Most Holy Mother help us in this, so that in each of our daily lives love of God and love of neighbor may be ever united. May 10, 2015 ST. THERESA FEAST PREPARATIONS We are making preparations for our annual St. Theresa Feast. We ask your help in preparing for it, Some features for this year s Feast: 1. The emphasis will be on family. The Feast is a celebration of your family and the larger family of St. Theresa Parish. 2. Our theme, taken from the picture of St. Theresa and her family in church is, St. Theresa s Family Is Our Family. To accommodate families right after school closes and before vacations begin, our Feast dates this year will be June 20 to June 24. We hope this makes it appealing for families to attend. 3. Our hours of operation each evening will be from 5PM to 9:30PM on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and 2PM to 9:30PM on Saturday and Sunday. 4. The gym will be used once again this year as the Kiddie Zone. This is especially geared to smaller children with bouncey rides, games, etc. 5. There will be a Casino in the school cafeteria each evening of the Feast The emphasis for the Feast will be that it is an Italian American celebration, with Italian food. For that reason, we are calling the Feast St. Theresa s Italian American Family Feast, to emphasize both the ethnic flavor (as our Greek friends do in their feast the week before ours) and family. We will again have our Grand Raffle. We will have cash prizes: $25,000 First Prize; $5,000 Second Prize; $1,000 Third Prize. We ask every family to take one ticket. The Raffle is the main source of our proceeds from the Feast and we hope to do better than ever this year. You probably received a ticket in the mail. Extra tickets will be available at the Feast table in front of church during Sunday Masses and at the rectory during the week. 8. The Feast will conclude with 4PM Mass on Sunday, June 24 with the Procession of the statue of St. Theresa afterwards, followed by a Concert by our musicians and choir. After the Concert, the prizes for the raffle will be drawn. Needless to say we will need many volunteers for the Feast. You will find in the vestibule of the church a signup page to be a Feast volunteer. We remind all volunteers of the Feast Volunteer Meeting this Wednesday at 7:30PM in the Rectory meeting room. ST. ANTHONY NOVENA The St. Anthony Novena is prayed every Tuesday at 7PM in preparation for the Feast of St. Anthony on June 13. Come and join in the Novena and in Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. ATTENTION The Volley Ball mothers of the 1970 s would like to get together for lunch. Volley Ball moms were from the following parishes: Santa Maria, St. Clare of Assisi, St. Benedict, Our Lady of Solace/St. Dominic and Our Lady of Assumption. If interested, please call Barbara Argiento at

6 THIS WEEK S ALTAR BREAD IS IN LOVING MEMORY OF MARIE SANSALONE LOVE & PRAYERS, ADELINE THE SANCTUARY LAMP BURNING NEAR THE TABERNACLE THIS WEEK IS IN LOVING MEMORY OF JOHN & EVELYN DISTEFANO LOVE, YOUR FAMILY ST. THERESA S CABARET THANK YOU Thank you for making the Cabaret such a success. We were able to raise $2,605 for the St. Vincent de Paul Society and $1,342 for the Brain Tumor Association. Food is now being collected for our Food Pantry. Our food pantry is in need of replenishing we are asking for items such as soups, canned vegetables, tomato sauce, pasta, rice, peanut butter, jelly, tuna fish, canned or boxed juices or any other nonperishable items. We can also use coffee, cake mixes and frostings, jello and puddings. NO GLASS JARS PLEASE! These items will be passed on to needy families in our parish and community. God bless you for your kindness. Thank you to all who have donated to our Pantry. God bless you and your families. Please continue to share the peace and joy of our faith with others. There are so many that are in the need of Jesus. Can you be for all of us a living sign to all our parishioners and neighbors, and tell them for us we need them and love them. Someone may hear and accept the invitation from you and return home to worship the Lord with us. So please invite a friend, relative, or neighbor to come with you to Church next Sunday. God will do the rest. Let us share our treasure of faith with others. SATURDAY MAY 5, :00PM Marie Gaetano SUNDAY MAY 6, :30AM Madeline Benza 9:00AM Parishioners of St. Theresa 10:30AM Francesca Giaquinta & Michele Muccio 12:15PM Evelyn & John DiStefano 1:30PM Roberto Pena 5:00PM Ralph Curcio MONDAY MAY 7, :00AM Benedetto Giambrone 9:00AM Joseph Louis Poidomani TUESDAY MAY 8, :00AM Brian Kaufmann 9:00AM Rose LaMarca WEDNESDAY MAY 9, :00AM Angelo Guerra 9:00AM Deceased Members of the DiFranco Family 7:30PM Mary Cea THURSDAY MAY 10, :00AM Benedetto Giambrone 9:00AM Maureen Sullivan 10:30AM Vivette Samuels 12NOON Lillian DiFigola FRIDAY MAY 11, :00AM Benedetto Giambrone 9:00AM Mary Tirado SATURDAY MAY 12, :00AM Michele Muccio 9:00AM Salvatore Montella 5:00PM Maria Zottola & Sarah Marino SUNDAY MAY 13, :30AM Mother s Day Intention 9:00AM Mother s Day Intention 10:30AM Mother s Day Intention 12:15PM Mother s Day Intention 1:30PM Msgr. Neil Graham 5:00PM Mother s Day Intention PRAY FOR THE SICK OF OUR PARISH: Phyllis Amitrano, Maryann Cale Bannan, Linda Barbaro, Nancy Cardone, Elaine Reiss Cina, Joseph Cina, Phyllis Caruso, Marie DiPolo, Thomas Egan, Daley Gribbon, Ita Griffin, Sean Howell, William Keenan, Sal Lanza, Frank Maiorana, Maryann Maiorana, Diane Martino, Joe Martino, Theresa Martino, Isabelle O Brien, Frank Oricco, Marie Russillo, Camille Siciliano, Mario Simeone, Toni Spahr, Florence Valentine, Dean Valentine, Nicholas Vasti, Frank Vertullo, Irene Vesely.

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