Divine Mercy Sunday April 8, 2018 Holy Trinity R. C. Church Whitestone, NY

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1 Divine Mercy Sunday April 8, 2018 Holy Trinity R. C. Church Whitestone, NY

2 THE PARISH COMMUNITY OF HOLY TRINITY STREET WHITESTONE, NY (718) FAX (718) WWW: HOLYTRINITYRCPARISH.ORG PARISH STAFF REV. JOSEPH R. GIBINO, STM, PH.D PASTOR REV. VINCENT DALY, IN RESIDENCE DEACON LENNY SCLAFANI MASS SCHEDULE VIGIL MASS SATURDAYS- 5:00 P.M. SUNDAYS 9:00 & 11: 00 A.M. 6:00 PM WEEKDAYS MONDAY SATURDAY 8:45 A.M. RECONCILIATION EVERY SATURDAY 11:00 12:00 NOON EUCHARISTIC ADORATION FIRST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH 9:30 A.M. 4:45 P.M. MS. DONNA SPOTO DIRECTOR OF FAITH FORMATION (718) MICHAEL ZABROCKI MUSIC MINISTRY DIRECTOR (718) MRS. FRAN MULHERN PARISH SECRETARY MRS. KRISTEN BARRIE PARISH BOOKKEEPER HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC ACADEMY STREET WHITESTONE, NY (718) FAX (718) MRS. BARBARA KAVANAGH

3 PAGE 1 SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER (DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY) April 08, 2018 Baptism We celebrate the Sacrament of Baptism for infants once a month at 2:00 PM. No baptisms are celebrated during Lent. To make arrangements call the rectory office. Communion Calls Please call the rectory to make arrangements for a priest or Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion to visit the homebound. Anointing of the Sick Please advise the parish office of your intention to be anointed at any Sunday or weekday Mass. Priests are also available to visit the sick at home for anointing. Marriage Couples must make arrangements for marriage at least six (6) months before their intended wedding date. Marriages are not celebrated on the First Friday of the Month. Parish Registration We welcome all newcomers to our community! Parish registration entitles parishioners to celebrate the Sacraments and funerals at Holy Trinity, and is necessary to receive sponsor certificates. Inquire at the rectory. Religious Education Program Grades K-8 Sunday at 10:15 AM Grades 1-8 Wednesday at 4:30 PM IN MEMORIAL Week OF april 08, 2018 The Wine and Host are being offered In Memory of Jack Damiano from Holy Trinity Catholic Academy Board. The Altar Candles are burning In Memory of Jack Damiano from Holy Trinity Catholic Academy Board. The Sanctuary Lamp is burning In Memory of Jack Damiano from Holy Trinity Catholic Academy Board. ANNOUNCED MASS INTENTIONS SATURDAY, APRIL 07, :00 PM Dr. Antonio Madrid SUNDAY, APRIL 08, 2018 Second Sunday Of Easter (Sunday of Divine Mercy) Acts 4: Jn 5:1-6 Jn 20:1-9 9:00 AM Louise Naooi (16th Anniversary) 11:00 AM Michele Lombardi (13th Anniversary) 6:00 PM Domenica Arduni & Eugenia Mastronardi MONDAY, APRIL 09, 2018 The Annunciation Of The Lord 8:45 AM Kenneth Navatta TUESDAY, APRIL 10, :45 AM Nina LoBello WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2018 Saint Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr 8:45 AM Fanny Mele THURSDAY, APRIL 12, :45 AM Eric Schubert FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2018 Saint Martin I, Pope and Martyr 8:45 AM Magda Laino SATURDAY, APRIL 14, :45 AM Jack Damiano Oksana Sobashek (For Healing) SATURDAY, APRIL 14, :00 PM Michael Malagiero SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2018 Third Sunday Of Easter Acts 3:13-15, Jn 2:1-5a Lk 24: :00 AM Paul Maltese 11:00 AM Marino Stacchini 6:00 PM People of Holy Trinity (Purgatorial Society) The Paschal Candle is for the Intentions of the Prayer Shawl Ministry. The Votive Lamp in Honor of Saint Anthony is In Memory of Eleanor Damiano from Her Daughter and Husband. The Votive Lamp in Honor of Padre Pio is in Loving Memory of Domenica Arduini & Eugina Mastronardi from Mastronardi & Arduini Families. the sick and the home bound: Florence Mottola, Josephine Oliveri, Alexa Hayes, Lorraine Callanan, Carmine & Pauline Falco, Maria Marinell, Peter Simonelli, Lawrence Burkart, Maria Madrizal, Willie Rennie, Eileen Feretic, Lindo Garuffi, Irene McCarthy, Kathleen Ermann, Matty Piccione, Sofia Rabello, Donna DiBari Georgio, Enza Dattero, Rosemary Reichert, James Leung, Martha Bartone and Oksana Sobashek. MAY THEY REST IN PEACE For the Deceased Members of our Parish. The Votive Lamp in Honor of the San Damiano Cross is in Memory of Eleanor Damiano from Her Daughter and Husband.

4 April 8, 2018 we celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday. So it is fitting that we stop and consider what God s tender mercy truly means for us. First: we must consider the words Pope Francis chose for his papal motto: Miserando atque eligendo. These words emphasize the theme of mercy and this has been Francis guiding principle throughout his papacy. Anyone who knew him was not surprised when he announced a Year of Mercy in fact, a Jubilee Year of Mercy that began on December 8, 2015 and finished on November 20, In the year that followed, did we as a Church, the sacrament of Jesus Christ, practice mercy? This leads to the second important aspect of today s celebration: there are two kinds of mercy, (a) mercy that is shown by God to humanity, and (b) mercy shown by humanity to others. This semester I have been teaching our deacon candidates from the works of St. Thomas Aquinas. So it is appropriate that I cite St. Thomas now! He writes that in every work of God, there is an element of both mercy and justice, signifying that the two are not opposed to each other. Rather, God acts mercifully, not indeed by going against His justice, but by doing something more than justice (ST, I, q. 21, a. 3). When God shows mercy toward creation, God is not contradicting Himself, rather God is giving us beyond what we are due. Because mercy is accounted as being proper to God, it is not beyond His power or outside His nature to exercise mercy, but is rather a demonstration of His overwhelming love. Remember: justice is not vengeance! Aquinas defines mercy as a virtue, which is the mercy shown from one person to another. He says, Mercy is heartfelt sympathy for another s distress (ST, II.II, q. 30, a. 1). He goes on to say, the motive of mercy, which must be seen in light of another s unhappiness, is, in a very important way not what we might naturally do, namely we might naturally want to do something evil that makes the one suffering feel even worse! What we must move toward spiritually is that pity which will give us the strength to show mercy and help the other person in a moment of need. Just before he was elected Pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, in one of his homilies said: Christ s mercy is not a grace that comes cheap, nor does it imply the trivialization of evil. Christ carries the full weight of evil and all its destructive force in his body and in his soul. He burns and transforms evil in suffering, in the fire of his suffering love. The day of vindication and the year of favor converge in the Paschal Mystery, in the dead and Risen Christ. This is the vengeance of God: he himself suffers for us, in the person of his Son. The more deeply stirred we are by the Lord s mercy, the greater the solidarity we feel with his suffering and we become willing to complete in our own flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ As we celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday, let us pray together in the words Pope Francis gave us for the Jubilee Year of Mercy: Lord Jesus Christ, you have taught us to be merciful like the heavenly Father, and have told us that whoever sees you sees Him. Show us your face and we will be saved. Your loving gaze freed Zacchaeus and Matthew from being enslaved by money; the adulteress and Magdalene from seeking happiness only in created things; made Peter weep after his betrayal, and assured Paradise to the repentant thief. Let us hear, as if addressed to each one of us, the words that you spoke to the Samaritan woman: "If you knew the gift of God!" You are the visible face of the invisible Father, of the God who manifests his power above all by forgiveness and mercy: let the Church be your visible face in the world, its Lord risen and glorified. You willed that your ministers would also be clothed in weakness in order that they may feel compassion for those in ignorance and error: let everyone who approaches them feel sought after, loved, and forgiven by God. Send your Spirit and consecrate every one of us with its anointing, so that the Jubilee of Mercy may be a year of grace from the Lord, and your Church, with renewed enthusiasm, may bring good news to the poor, proclaim liberty to captives and the oppressed, and restore sight to the blind. We ask this of you, Lord Jesus, through the intercession of Mary, Mother of Mercy; you who live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit for ever and ever. Amen.

5 The Annunciation of the Lord celebrates the angel Gabriel's appearance to the Virgin Mary, announcing that she had been chosen to be the Mother of Our Lord. When is the Annunciation? The Annunciation always falls on March 25, exactly nine months before the birth of Jesus Christ at Christmas. However, the celebration of the feast is transferred to a different date if it falls on a Sunday of Lent, during Holy Week, or during the octave of Easter. The Church considers Masses for the Sundays of Lent, any time in Holy Week, and any time from Easter through the Sunday after Easter Divine Mercy Sunday to be so important that even this Marian feast cannot replace one of them. So, when the Annunciation falls on a Sunday in Lent (before Palm Sunday), it is transferred to the following Monday. If it falls on Palm Sunday or on any day in Holy Week, it is transferred to Low Monday, the Monday after the Sunday after Easter. Here is the day of the week on which the Annunciation falls (and the day and date on which it will be celebrated) this year: Annunciation 2018: Sunday, March 25, 2018 (transferred to Monday, April 9, 2018). The Magnificat of Mary The "Magnificat" or "Canticle of Mary" is taken from the Gospel of Luke 1: My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my Savior for He has looked with favor on His lowly servant. From this day all generations will call me blessed: the Almighty has done great things for me, and holy is His name. He has mercy on those who fear Him in every generation. He has shown the strength of His arm, He has scattered the proud in their conceit. He has cast down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty. He has come to the help of his servant Israel for he remembered his promise of mercy, the promise he made to our fathers, to Abraham and his children for ever. Perhaps the first and most difficult step toward entering the religious life is leaving one s family, especially one s own mother. This enormous sacrifice can only be sweetened by the awaiting embrace of Mary, the sweetest of mothers, who will never be outdone in generosity. Her perfect example of humility and total abandonment to God s purpose is rich endowment and comfort to the fledgling and life-long security to the seasoned religious. During her life on earth, God asked the Blessed Virgin Mary to be the humble Mother of Jesus and wife of Joseph. Her example of fidelity can be a model for anyone seeking to be faithful to the call God has given them. At the Annunciation, Mary gives an example of obedience to God s will, even when it is shrouded in mystery. Her fidelity as wife and Mother in the hidden life at Nazareth provides a model of humility and poverty, while her intercession at the wedding feast at Cana shows self-forgetful love. Mary s station at the Foot of the Cross reminds us how being faithful to one s calling brings us also to the Foot of the Cross, there to offer everything to Mary, in union with the suffering Jesus, in order to be fruitful for souls. Being a member of a cloistered religious order, I will examine these four moments in the life of Mary as related to the cloistered religious life. Mary was chosen by God for a special mission. Her life, perhaps, seemed not much different from other young women her age. And yet, in a single moment, everything changed. God asked her to be His Mother. She pondered, and she asked a question. God said he could accomplish what was impossible for men. Placing her full trust in God, even though, at the time, she could not imagine what it would bring, she said yes: May it be done to me according to your word. Mary remained the same simple young woman she had been, but that firm YES to God s will opened up a way that changed the course of her life. Because of that yes, a miracle happened: the Virgin became a Mother. Her whole life was fully open to God s will, whatever it may have been, however unsearchable and mysterious it may have been. She could not have fully understood the outcome, but she bowed unhesitatingly to God s will and bore Him Who would change the course of history. There would be many more yeses in her life, culminating at the Foot of the Cross.

6 MINISTRY SCHEDULE FOR APRIL 14-15, :00 PM (APRIL 14, 2018) Altar Servers: Emma, Kate & Sarah Keane Lector: Martina Keane E.M.H.C.: George & Ninfa Masi, Bob Mulligan 9:00 AM (APRIL 15, 2018) Altar Servers: Brandon, Brittany & Brooke Pabon Lector: Junior Lectors E.M.H.C.: Jim & Maureen Reichert, Magaly Lohnes 11:00 AM Altar Servers: Alessandra, Gianluca & Marcello Viscoso Lector: Luann Branowitz E.M.H.C.: Frank & Grace Moreno, Cherylann Vescio 6:00 PM Altar Servers: Jackie & Sabrina Carey, Charlie Robertson Lector: Diana O Neill E.M.H.C.: Susan Dunleavy, Jeanne Raffa, Debbie Robertson POST-SYNODAL APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION AMORIS LÆTITIA CHAPTER FIVE Love Made Fruitful An Expanding Fruitfulness 184. By their witness as well as their words, families speak to others of Jesus. They pass on the faith, they arouse a desire for God and they reflect the beauty of the Gospel and its way of life. Christian marriages thus enliven society by their witness of fraternity, their social concern, their outspokenness on behalf of the underprivileged, their luminous faith and their active hope. Their fruitfulness expands and in countless ways makes God s love present in society. Discerning the body 185. Along these same lines, we do well to take seriously a biblical text usually interpreted outside of its context or in a generic sense, with the risk of overlooking its immediate and direct meaning, which is markedly social. I am speaking of 1 Cor 11:17-34, where Saint Paul faces a shameful situation in the community. The wealthier members tended to discriminate against the poorer ones, and this carried over even to the agape meal that accompanied the celebration of the Eucharist. While the rich enjoyed their food, the poor looked on and went hungry: One is hungry and another is drunk. Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the Church of God and humiliate those who have nothing?

7 Save the Date Vacation Bible Camp You otter not miss this! July 16-20, 2018 Eddie the Otter, Mascot Join Us for Our Tenth Anniversary EASTER DUTY After being initiated into the Most Holy Eucharist, all the faithful are bound by the obligation of receiving Holy Communion at least once a year. This precept must be fulfilled during the Easter season, unless for a good reason it is fulfilled at another time of the year. By special indult, in the United States, the time period for fulfilling this precept has been extended to include the period beginning the First Sunday of Lent (Feb. 22, 2015) to Trinity Sunday (May 31, 2015). Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord: This year the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord will be celebrated on Monday, April 9. Hosted by DJ s at Work Saturday May 5, 2018 Doors Open at 6PM Haggerty Hall Located in Holy Trinity Catholic Academy rd Street Whitestone NY Tickets- $20 in advance ($25 at door) Includes Bingo Cards, Chips, Beer, Wine, Soda, Snacks, & Sandwiches Tickets available at Church after Weekend Masses or at the Parish Office Monday Friday 9AM 4PM (718) x10 If you think you have a problem with Alcohol, come to a meeting, 7:30 PM, Thursday Evenings, in the Church Community Room please enter from the Front of the Church... All are Welcome. If you need further information please feel free to call Jane Shade Proceeds Benefit Holy Trinity Parish

8 God and Father of all gifts, We praise You, source of all we are. Teach us to acknowledge always with Generous gratitude the many good things Your infinite love has given us, As we support the work of our Diocese in Brooklyn and Queens. Open our hearts that we may answer Your Call to follow the message of the Gospel as Disciples in love and service, So that all may come to know You. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, One God, for ever and ever. Amen How will our Parish Benefit? The goal at Holy Trinity is $54,035 Once we exceed our goal, we will then receive 100% of all funds raised above this figure come directly back to the parish! Answer the Call to: feed the hungry, welcome the stranger, visit the sick and imprisoned, Honor our elders, Celebrate the Eucharist and educate and make Disciples of all nations

9 Want To Remember A Loved One Who Has Died? Or Honor Someone For a Special Event? Why Not Arrange To Have One Of These Beautiful Weekly Memorials For Them? Thanks to all our dear parishioners for all of the egg-sellent Easter treats sent to us! A blessed Easter Season to everyone! Altar Breads Altar Candles Fresh Arrangement of Altar Flowers Bereavement Support Groups Sacred Heart Church, Bayside, NY, from 7:30-9:30 PM on the first Tuesday of each month. For additional information, please call Saint Luke s, Whitestone, NY, 7:00 PM on the 1st Tuesday of each month. For additional information, please call Sister Agliardi at THE MVP S AND VIP S New Members Always Welcome!! For information please call Tom Lynch Sanctuary Candle Saint Candles San Damiano Cross The Prayer Shawl Ministry will meet on Saturday, April 14, 2018, at 10:30 am, in the Rectory Basement. All are welcome. Please call Jean at with any questions. STUDENTS ATTAINING HONORS THE MARY LOUIS ACADEMY The Name Of Person(s) Remembered & Requestor will Be Printed In The Bulletin. In addition, you can request a Memorial Card. For Information On Any These Memorials Please Call Ext.10, or Visit The Parish Office Principal s List: Gemma Iurillo, Elizabeth Piccolo First Honors : Gabriela Grzywna, Bianc Ragusa, Kiara Ronaghan, Faith Schmidt WE COMMEND THESE STUDENTS FOR A JOB WELL DONE KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

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15 Each week we will be presenting a fuller report on the number of worshipers attending Sunday Celebration of the Eucharist and the Collections. Our hope is that it will assist in complete financial transparency. Seating capacity of the Church is 450 worshippers. In 2017, 1,288 Parishioners attended Masses, using 311 envelopes and contributed $9, Celebration Number Attending Envelopes Non-Envelope Total 7:30 PM =$1, $ $2, :00 AM =$2, $ $2, :00 AM =$1, $ $2, :00 PM =$1, $ $1, $8, FUNERAL HOME All New Facilities - Pre Need Planning FULLY ACCESSIBLE TO THE PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED Fireside Catholic Heritage Edition Bible The Catholic Heritage Edition in the New American Bible Revised Edition translation is the ideal Catholic Family Bible. Features: Our Catholic Family, Family Record section and Burgundy padded cover with goldgilded page edges. Only $69.99 post paid C/O The Church Bulletin, Inc. FREDERICK SERVICES INC Northern Blvd Dale Street W. Babylon, NY Enclosed please find check/money order for $ to cover the cost of (quantity) copies of the Fireside Family Bible, to be shipped post paid to: Name Address City State Zip Fireside Catholic Youth Bible The Fireside Catholic Youth Bible was written to enable Catholic youth to grow emotionally and spiritually in their Catholic faith. There are 21 topics addressed through five comprehensive sections. Features: Page-edge indexing, Origin, Inspiration and History of the Bible, Presentation page, Three-year Cycle of Readings, Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, Celebration of the Eucharist Youth Bible Soft Cover...$44.99 post paid Youth Bible Hard Cover...$49.99 post paid C/O The Church Bulletin, Inc. 200 Dale Street W. Babylon, NY Enclosed please find check/money order for $ to cover the cost of (quantity) copies of the Fireside Family Bible, to be shipped post paid to: Name Address City State Zip Please Patronize Our Advertisers

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