THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME NOVEMBER 18, 2018

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1 THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME NOVEMBER 18, 2018 But in those days, after that suffering, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. Then he will send out the angels, and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven (Mark ) The Triumph of Christianity Over Paganism Gustave Dore (Public domain)

2 St. John the Evangelist and St. Charles Borromeo Rev. John F. X. Palatucci, Pastor Rev. Sibi Thomas Kuttipala, Parochial Vicar Rev. Mark Vaillancourt, Sunday Associate at St. John Mrs. Marilyn Van Millon, Administrative Assistant Ms. Nan Kramer, Religious Education Coordinator Tele: Mrs. Kate Genn, Youth Ministry Contact: Mass Schedule Saturday Evening Vigil St. Charles: 4:00 PM and St. John: 5:00 PM Sunday St. Charles:, 6:00 PM La Misa en Español. St. John: 7:30, 9:30 and 11:00 AM. Weekday masses St. John: Monday to Friday at and Saturday at 8:30 AM. Holy Days of Obligation-Please check the bulletin the Sunday before the Holy Day for Mass times. Or you may call the rectory for more information. Trustees Jeri Smith and Will Jackson Rectory Office St. John-St. Charles, 39 E. Main Street, Pawling, NY Tele: FAX: Emergency phone (Day or Night) , please leave message with answering service. SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM- Baptisms take place at St. John s on the fourth Sunday of the month immediately following the 11:00 AM Mass. And at St. Charles after the Mass. Baptismal class is on the 3 rd Thursday in St. John s Church. SACRAMENT OF PENANCE AND RECONCILIATION- Saturday: St. Charles 3:15 3:45 PM and St. John s 4:15 4:45 PM. Or anytime by appointment. SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE- Arrangements should be made at least six months in advanced. Please call the rectory office for more information. SACRAMENT OF THE ANOINTING OF THE SICK AND HOLY COMMUNION Please notify the rectory if anyone is in the hospital, infirmed, or homebound and desires a visit from a priest to offer the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick and/or Holy Communion. Also, arrangements can be made to offer communion for a homebound parishioner on a weekly basis. For more information, please call the rectory and speak with either Fr. Palatucci or Fr. Thomas. Devotions Miraculous Medal Novena-St. John s every Monday morning immediately after the Mass. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament-St. John s, M-F immediately after the Mass. Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary before every 4:00 PM Saturday Vigil Mass at St. Charles. Divine Mercy Chaplet before every 9:30 A M Sunday morning Mass at St. Charles.

3 Thirtieth Third Week St. John the Evangelist Saturday, November 17 8:30 AM Walter Leon (L) 5:00 PM Baresich Family Sunday, November 18 7:30 AM Lorri Pezzuti Sharon Doyle 11:00 AM Serafina & Nicola Bueti Monday, November 19 Virginia Driscoll Tuesday, November 20 Anthony Arena Wednesday, November 21 Frank Murray Thursday, November 22 9:00 AM Thanksgiving Friday, November 23 Carmelo Arena Saturday, November 24 8:30 AM Jennie Carilli 5:00 PM Otto Mahn Sunday, November 25 7:30 AM Cliff Kappes Dominico Russo 11:00 AM Mary, Thomas & Elizabeth Tynan St. Charles Borromeo Saturday, November 17 4:00 PM Al McEnroe Sunday, November 18 Violet & Richard Fesselmeyer 6:00 PM Missa Pro Popolo Thursday, November 22 9;00AM Thanksgiving Saturday, November 24 4:00 PM George E. Whalen Sunday, November 25 Missa Pro Popolo 6:00 PM Mass intentions can be for both the living, the deceased, whole families listed by last name, and for certain causes. The donation for each intention is $15.00, but only one intention is allowed per Mass. Please call the parish for more information in Ordinary Time. Monday Rv 1:1-4, 2:1-5; Lk 18:35-43 Tuesday Rv 3:1-6, 14-22; Lk 19:1-10 Wednesday Rv 4:1-11; Lk 19:11-28 Thursday Lk 19:11-28; Rv 5:1-10; Lk 19:41-44 Friday Rv 10:8-11; Lk 19:45-48 Saturday Rv 11:4-12; Lk 20:27-40 Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe Dn 7:13-14; Rv 1:5-8; Jn 18:33b-37 TITHING AND STEWARDSHIP St. John s Weekly Donations - $5, $4, Weekly offering $ We Share 50/50 Club Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Baldasare - $58.50 St. Charles Weekly Donations - $ 1, $1, Weekly offering $ We Share 50/50 Club Luz Morquecho - $31.50 We are Solely Parishioner Supported Parish and we are thankful for your continued support. Memorials Sanctuary Lamp at St. John s or St. Charles - $15.00 BVM or St. Joseph Torch at St. John s - $15.00 Wine and the Host at St. John s or St. Charles $ Please call the Rectory Office to make the arrangements The Sanctuary Candle, Wine & Host at St. John s is dedicated this week in memory of Serafina & Nicola Bueti

4 Thanksgiving Prayer November 24th: Youth group meeting. Join us as we pray lectio divina 6-8 PM, Fr. Moriarty Center Pro Life March Bus Fundraiser: We will be selling Jesus is the Reason for the Season magnets after all Masses on November 24th and 25th at St. Johns, and December 1st and 2nd at St Charles. Please consider supporting us in this effort! Thank you and God bless!" December 1-2: No meeting but remember to sign up to watch our youth as they participate in the Jesse Walk! Father in Heaven, Creator of all and source of all goodness and love, please look kindly upon us and receive our heartfelt gratitude in this time of giving thanks. Thank you for all the graces and blessings. You have bestowed upon us, spiritual and temporal: our faith and religious heritage. Our food and shelter, our health, the loves we have for one another, our family and friends. Dear Father, in Your infinite generosity, please grant us continued graces and blessings throughout the coming year. For the deceased clergy of St. John and St. Charles FOR THE INFIRMED: Dennis Anton, Corrine Birch, Donald Callahan, Burton Cann, Annita Cardillo, Rosemary Corsetti, Sharon Diaz, the Rojas family, Martin Galvin, Sally Greenlese, Sue Ingegneri, Liza Cabrera, Rita McEnroe, Winnfred McHugh, Corrine Birch, William Vitro, Mr. & Mrs., Joseph Cannata, Teresa Condeer, Helene Piacentino, Dorothy Plenge. Please pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory and for the conversion of sinners AND FOR THOSE WHO DEFEND US: Senior Airman Ashely Carey, Air Force; CH (MAJ) James B. Collins, Army; MAJ Robert Dugan, Marine Corps; Seaman Apprentice Skylar Johnson, Navy; Paratrooper Connor Maile, Army; CH (CPT) Peter Pomposello, Army; Maj. Kevin Smith, Army; CPO Kevin Walsh, Navy. To add a name or have one taken off the prayer list, please call or (stcmvm@aol.com) the Rectory Office. Names will remain on the list for one month. According to tradition, St. Gertrude the Great was told by Our Lord that the following prayer, each time she piously recited it, would release 1,000 souls (or a vast number) from their suffering in purgatory: Eternal Father, I offer You the most precious blood of thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal Church, for those in my own home, and in my family. Amen. This we ask in the Name of Jesus, Your Son and our Brother. Amen New Women s Group Father John Palatucci cordially invites all women of our parish for a town hall meeting on Monday, November 19, 2018 at 7:00pm in the Moriarty Center to discuss the formation of new spiritual/social groups specifically for you in the New Year. The meeting will be a way for Father Palatucci to listen to what the women of our parish are looking for and to explore ways on how to expand on the programs we already have established. Refreshments will be served. For more info please contact Kevin Greco at The Catholic Daughters who have been a part of our parish for over 97 years are looking for new members to join them in their works of charity in support of our community and parish. All women are invited to join. If you are interested or would like to learn more, you can contact Sherry Swick at The Catholic Daughters would like to thank all parishioners for their generous support of our recent bake sale. This will provide much needed support of our local projects that includes the Pawling Resource Center and the Center for Compassion in Dover. Thank you

5 St. Charles Church For the past 26 years the parishioners of St. Charles have opened their hearts to help those less fortunate. Beginning Thanksgiving weekend, the angels with request will be affixed to the Christmas Giving Tree. If you are able, please take an angel, shop and return it wrapped under the tree or return it o the nurses office at the Dover schools. If anyone would like to adopt a family, please contact Kathleen Glynn at or Your kindness and generosity is greatly appreciated. Please pray for those families in need. St. Johns Church The Catholic Daughters in partnership with Catholic Charities will have the annual Giving Tree set up at the entrance to St. John s Church beginning November 24th. Please select an ornament from the tree that will specify a gift for a child or adult in need. Please return your gift unwrapped and place it under the tree by Sunday, December 16th. Thank you St John's will be having their Christmas Pageant during the Christmas Eve Mass on Monday, December 24th. There will be an informational meeting held on Tuesday November 27th at 7:30 pm after Religious Education classes for anyone interested in participating. At this meeting we will give out the rehearsal dates. There will also be auditions for any children who are interested in a speaking role. We will have plenty of room for non-speaking roles as angels and shepherds so please come sign up. All pageant participants will be singing at the pageant. We would also welcome any older children looking for community service hours to help out. If you have any questions, please call Eileen or Jerome Canzoneri at Thank you! The Catholic Widow & Widowers of Dutchess & Putnam Counties will have their Annual Thanksgiving dinner meeting on Nov. 20, 2018 at 6:00pm. The meeting will be held in the Parish meeting Room at St. Kateri Church, 1925 Route 82, Lagrangeville, NY Cost is $ For more information please contact Rose Mary Redmond at PASTORS CORNER Post Mass Noise As a reminder, we should do our best to depart Mass in relative silence. There is an inordinate amount of talking going on in the church after Mass. Some people like to pray after receiving our Lord in the Eucharist. Please reserve all socializing for outside the church. I d appreciate it. Advent Changes 1) Beginning the first Sunday in Advent and continuing thereafter on a regular basis, we will be praying the Rosary before every Sunday Mass including the 5:00 PM Vigil on Saturday. In doing so we will prepare ourselves spiritually to enter into the great mystery of the Holy Sacrifice of Mass. Look at it as if the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Mother, is calling us home for supper! All music practice will now take place in the Fr. Moriarity Center prior to Mass. 2) Beginning the first Friday in December, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament will be extended each First Friday of the Month until 8 PM. Confessions will be offered 6:457:30 on that day as well. ON THE USE OF PSYCHICS, PALM READERS, TAROT CARDS, AND OTHER OCCULTIC PRACTICES The Catechism of the Catholic Church states the following: Divination and magic 2115 God can reveal the future to his prophets or to other saints. Still, a sound Christian attitude consists in putting oneself confidently into the hands of Providence for whatever concerns the future and giving up all unhealthy curiosity about it. Improvidence, however, can constitute a lack of responsibility All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to "unveil" the future. Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power over time, history, and, in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate hidden powers. They contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone All practices of magic or sorcery, by which one attempts to tame occult powers, so as to place them at one's service and have a supernatural power over others - even if this were for the sake of restoring their health - are gravely contrary to the virtue of religion. These practices are even more to be condemned when accompanied by the intention of harming someone, or when they have recourse to the intervention of demons. Wearing charms is also reprehensible. Spiritism often implies divination or

6 magical practices; the Church for her part warns the faithful against it. Recourse to so-called traditional cures does not justify either the invocation of evil powers or the exploitation of another's credulity Superstition is a departure from the worship that we give to the true God. It is manifested in idolatry, as well as in various forms of divination and magic. I recently read that there is an increasing number of people in our nation who are involving themselves with divination arts and occult practices. How sad that so many have lost hope and love for Jesus Christ, his Church and the offer of eternal salvation that only he can redeem us towards. But it has also come to my attention that some are questioning the use of divination arts as being sanctioned or accepted by the Catholic Church. This is false. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Over the centuries the Church has been blessed with a plethora of mystic saints. We recall such names as Margaret Mary Alacoque, Padre Pio, John Vianney, Juan Diego, Bernadette Soubirous, the Fatima children, Faustina Kowalska, Rose of Lima, the children at Knock, Maximillian Kolbe, and many others who ve experienced unique premonitions about events, or have seen apparitions of the Lord, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and other saints and angels. In all these cases, the saints have humbled themselves to the authority of the Church to determine what is a true apparition or a mystical encounter with the preternatural. Under no circumstances has the Catholic Church ever condoned or accepted the divining arts such as Tarot cards, mediums, psychics, horoscopes, palm readers, Ouija boards, Reiki, séances, Wiccan, white and black magic, Satanism, Santeria, or any form of occult practices or divination arts. In fact, all of these offend God. In many cases people practice these arts out of ignorance, believing that they will help them or give a deeper insight to their lives. This is an illusion and therein lies the danger. We must always be on our guard against those things that may seem good on the outside, but in fact are not in the end. And in some cases, culpability can be lessened to a certain extent when we do sinful acts out of ignorance. A sin can remain grave without us incurring the guilt of mortal sin when ignorance is present. However, when these sins are committed with full knowledge by those who claim to be Christian, they re a direct act of defiance against the Commandments and the Church s teaching. It is then that the culpability of mortal sin is incurred. And mortal sin can send us to eternal. Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition, and the Magisterium of the Church all condemn these practices vehemently. These things are deeply offensive to the Heavenly Father. Mortal sin destroys sanctifying grace, the salvation offered to us by his Son, Jesus Christ, the sole and only possible way to heaven. To willfully replace Jesus with psychics, Tarots, etc., is gravely offensive to the God of love. No one can participate in them with their good conscience intact. As your Father in faith and your pastor, I ask you to avoid these things at all costs. We should never tempt the Lord our God. If we have a habit of attending these events or places, I ask you to please stop immediately and repent by coming to the Sacrament of Reconciliation and Penance as soon as possible. Why would anyone want to replace the loving affection of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament with these arts? Why would anyone reject the gifts of the Holy Spirit? How could we forget the Heavenly Father, who created us for his very self, and render ourselves separated from God by making a conscience choice to reject what the Divine Trinity offers us each day in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass? These arts dishonor God and cheapen our faith, ransomed at such an immense price by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the only Lord of Heaven and Earth. The Divine Trinity loves us, for God is love. The Blessed Virgin Mary loves us, for she gave birth to incarnate divine love, Jesus. The Holy Spirit loves us, for he continually calls us to the highest virtue of faith in the Divine Trinity by participating in the sacramental life of the Catholic Church. The saints and angels in heaven love us for they share with God the beatific vision, that is, seeing God face-to-face, and praying for us to join them in the glory of heaven forever. This week s gospel concerns our Lord returning at the end of the world for final judgment. The image I used for this week s bulletin cover is called The Triumph of Christianity Over Paganism (Gustave Dore), an apropos image for this appeal. God s greatest desire and hope is for all of us to share with his very divine nature, to be with him for all eternity in the new creation soon to descend upon humanity, the full revelation of the Kingdom of God. Jesus the Lord is coming soon. As the Blessed Virgin Mary said at Fatima, people do not understand the meaning of eternity. Let us work together to reject everything that is contrary to Our Divine Savior and prepare for that day and the Final Judgment of the world, where sin and death will be conquered and vanquished forever. Blessings and prayers, Fr. John F. X. Palatucci