Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Church August 23 th, 2015

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1 August 23 th, 2015 PASTORAL CARE FOR THE HOMEBOUND: If you are sick, homebound, or in the hospital and would like to receive Holy Communion or would like a pastoral visit, please contact Deacon John McCormack by leaving a detailed message at or calling the Parish Office at If you prefer, you may Deacon John at jmac1255@gmail.com. PRAYER NETWORK: The Prayer Network is a way to have prayers requested. Your intentions may be given to Nancy Vaughn at to be prayed for by our vine of caring people. MUSIC MINISTRY: The Youth Choir practices on Wednesdays from 6 to 7:00 pm; Adult Choir practices are Wednesdays from 7:30 to 9:30 pm; Contemporary Ensemble practices are Thursdays from 7 to 9:30 pm. All practices are in the church. For more information, please contact our Music Director, Nina Ricci, at nina.ricci@saintkaterimusic.org. PARENT/CHILD CONNECTION: The Parent-Child Connection provides a safe playgroup for young children and an opportunity for adults to share their understanding of early childhood issues in an environment that promotes Catholic values. Please visit our parish website to see a complete schedule. T.L.C. TRI PARISH TEEN GROUP: The teen group is a program for all the high school students in the parishes of St. Denis, St. Columba and Saint Kateri. The program includes fun activities such as outings and trips, service activities for the parish and greater community, and opportunities to learn more about your faith. PARISH MEMBERSHIP: New parishioners are always welcome. New Parishioner Forms are available in the church narthex, at the Parish Office, or online. If you are a regular contributor, please consider becoming a member to ensure receipt of a tax statement at each year-end. ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is the world s most distinguished Friends of the Poor. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul offers assistance to those in need. Hotline for those in need: OUR LADY OF LIFE MINISTRY: We meet monthly for prayer and support of local life needs. Hotline for those in need: Sisters of Life Mission: Birth Right: Good Counsel: DIRECTORY OF ACTIVITIES Adopt-A-Night (feeding homeless)... lacolla@optimum.net - Vivian LaColla Adult Faith Form/Bible Study Julie Borges Altar Linens Geraldine Natale Altar Rosary Society Betty Perrino Altar Servers Baking Lorraine Travia Baptismal Program Deacon Bob Bereavement Group Lorraine Travia bktbereavement@optonline.net Blood Drives Dusty Maiolo Chapel/Church Cleaners Mary Covucci Church Decorators Cathy Varano Cursillo Tony Martino Discover Christ Julie Borges Ecumenical Group Dave Borges Eucharistic Adoration Dave Borges Eucharistic Ministers Dcn John McCormack Faith Formation/Family Catechesis x Heidi Reale Fund Raising Anthony Cirone Gardening/Landscaping Dennis Rosenfeld Hospital/Homebound Visits Deacon John Hospitality Andrea Cirone Kateri Can Cook Ellen Newhard Knights of Columbus Keith McCartney kmhudson3@gmail.com Lectors Deacon John Barone Leisure Club.mlbiasotti2000@aol.com---Mary Biasotti Liturgical Minister Schedule Denise Casey Joyful Noise Heidi Reale Junior High Club Larry Ryan/ St. Denis Marriage Encounter Anne Anderson Men s Group Dave Borges Music Ministry/Youth Choir..nina.ricci@saintkaterimusic.org ---- Nina Ricci Pancake Breakfast Robert & Ellen Newhard Parent-Child Connection Kira Gorman kirazgorman@yahoo.com Parish Activities Ed & Laura Leahy Parish Council Robert Herberger Prayer Shawl Ministry Vivian LaColla Prayer Network Nancy Vaughn R.C.I.A./R.C.I.T Msgr. Desmond bktrcia@gmail.com Respect Life sktforlife@optonline.net------annemarie R./Cathy D./Andrew H Spirit Wind Prayer Group Pat Mackey Spiritual Life Msgr. Desmond St. Vincent de Paul Joyce Pfirman Support for Military Families John & Ruth Recchia TLC Teen Group dpbell@optonline.net ---- Dave and Kathy Bell Teen Music Ministry..nina.ricci@saintkaterimusic.org-Nina Ricci Ushers/Greeters Anthony Cirone Vacation Bible School Judy Horton Widows & Widowers Club Joan Lee Prayer to Saint Kateri Tekakwitha St. Kateri Tekakwitha, favored child and Lily of the Mohawks, I come to seek your intercession in my present need: (mention it). I admire the virtues which adorned your soul: love of God and neighbor, humility, obedience, patience, purity and the spirit of sacrifice. Help me to imitate your example in my state of life. Through the goodness and mercy of God, Who has blessed you with so many graces which led you to the true faith and to a high degree of holiness, pray to God for me and help me. Obtain for me a very fervent devotion to the Holy Eucharist so that I may love Holy Mass as you did and receive Holy Communion as often as I can. Teach me also to be devoted to my crucified Savior as you were, that I may cheerfully bear my daily crosses for love of Him Who suffered so much for love of me. Most of all, I beg you to pray for me that I may avoid sin, lead a holy life and save my soul. Amen.

2 MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK Monday August 24 St. Bartholomew 9:00 am For All Parishioners Tuesday August 25 Sts. Louis & Joseph Calasanz 9:00 am Florence Nippes By George & Laura Prisco Wednesday August 26 9:00 am Phyllis Cross By Anthony Sepe Thursday August 27 St. Monica 9:00 am Megan, Erica & Brittney Wurtzburger By mom Friday August 28 St. Augustine 9:00 am Josephine DeSomma By Bill DeSomma Saturday August 29 Passion of St. John the Baptist 9:00 am Joan Speirs By all her children 5:00 pm Angela & Joseph Cippollone By Antonia Tenuta Sunday August 30 9:00 Lionel Dubé, Sr. By the Dubé Family 10:30 am Josephine DeSomma By Bill DeSomma 12:15 pm Saverio "Sonny" Tenuta By James & Beth Ragnetti 5:30 pm Eileen Jones By the Rivera Family PARISH ACTIVITIES Monday August 24 7:30 pm Adoration (Chapel) 7:30 pm Confessions (Chapel) Tuesday August 25 7:00 am HVC BSA Dutchess District Faith Formation Building: St. Patrick 7:00 pm Spirit Wind Prayer Group (Chapel) Wednesday August 26 After the 9am Mass Confessions (Chapel) Saturday August 29 4:00 pm Confessions (Chapel) ST. VINCENT DE PAUL FOOD PANTRY NEWS BACK TO SCHOOL SUPPLY DRIVE School supplies needed include pens, pencils, crayons, folders, tissues, glue sticks, wide-ruled loose leaf paper, spiral note books (wide-rule only), scissors, pencil boxes, rulers, erasers, back-packs, lunch boxes, and any other school supplies. All donations are gratefully accepted. Drop off at church where St. Vincent DePaul items are collected. For questions, call Thank you for your support. This week, the SVDP's Food Pantry needs ketchup, mustard, canned yams/sweet potatoes, and Raman noodles. For assistance, to volunteer or become a member, call The next meeting is September 9 th at 7 pm in the Convent Meeting Room at St. Columba. Visit svdpfoodpantry.org PARISH INCOME REPORT In Pew Collection: $8, Last Year's In Pew Collection: $9, Marriage Banns III Jessica Nesheiwap & Samuel Zeidan III Courtney Dolan & Timothy Woods "Learn it, Live it, Share it." "Things may change in life but we start and end with family." COL meets the 2 nd Saturday of every month, 7-9 pm. Our next meeting is September 12 th. All are welcome. For information, call Marcella or Kevin Gaughan at SUNDAY AUGUST 30, 2015 LITURGICAL MINISTERS SCHEDULE Mass Lector Eucharistic Ministers Altar Servers Sat. 5:00 pm Fr. Michael Carl Garofolo Jr. Jean Bartoes, Joan Crowe, James Werber 9:00 am Fr. Michael Anne Whitton Rosealice D'Avanzo, Debbie Outman, Betty Perrino, Diana Schopen, Robert Young Caleb Duden, Gabe Duden, TBD Jordan Fisher, Joseph Whitton, Matthew Whitton 10:30 am Fr. Michael Sam Varano 12:15 pm Fr. Michael Noe Ramon Ilano 5:30 pm Fr. Michael Peter Bodnar III Angela Bava, Patricia Mackey, Cindy McKinney, Shirley Sullivan, Lorraine Travia Shannon Burke, Sally Mastreani, Rita Rogers Kathy Bell, Lisa Coniglio, Maura Lee-Byrne Frank Casey, Nate Reale, TBD Kristen Cain, Kyra Cain, Matthew Cain Jillian Coniglio, TBD

3 THE POWER OF PRAYER If you would like to have your name, or know someone who has given permission to have their name, added to the prayer list, call Nancy Vaughn at Please pray for those who are ill: Julie Borges, Denee DeVizio, Frank Fetzer, Anna Florence, Robert Florence, William Grafer, Robert Gruden, Dariana Jamison, Kate Madigan, Patricia and Kenneth McCabe, Ashley O'Gorman, Edwina and Samuel Payne, Zachary Tank Please pray for our parishioners serving in the military: Jamie Babon, Michael Baibagallo, Daniel Barone, Timothy Douglass, Thomas Finn, Brandon Gonzalez, Matthew Howard, Kenneth Jablecki, Zachery Kirchner, Ian Mackay, Joseph D. Nani, Vincent Nichtern, Max Ostachowsky, James Tindall, Matthew Walsh RCIA (RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS) Non-Catholic adults interested in learning about our Catholic faith and Catholic adults who need the sacraments of Initiation (baptism, confirmation or Eucharist) are welcome to attend our free sessions. They take place on Thursday evenings, 7-9 pm, beginning immediately prior to Labor Day and culminating at the Easter Vigil, March 26 th, Because this coming Easter is early, please sign up before classes begin. People have been signing up after classes have started. Call the Parish Office for information and to register. RCIT (RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF TEENS) We have had an increasing number of high school students coming to us to learn about our faith who have no, or limited, prior religious education. We will be conducting a two year program to give ninth, tenth or eleventh graders a background in the faith and the opportunity to receive sacraments they may have missed. We already have several signed up for next year. If you are, or know of such a student, contact Heidi Reale or Msgr. Desmond at SEPTEMBER HEALING MASS A healing Mass, with a free flow of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, will be held Tuesday September 1 st. Guest celebrant is Fr. Abraham George, currently at St. Martin de Porres in Poughkeepsie. Praise and worship begins at 7 pm, Mass at 7:30 in the Chapel. Individual prayers for healing follow Mass. The event is sponsored by Spirit Wind Prayer Group. Prayer and worship is available every other Tuesday from 7:15-9 pm. For details, call Pat or Joe at CATHOLIC'S DIVORCE SURVIVAL GUIDE The Family Life/Respect Life Office is sponsoring the CSDG 12 week course every Tuesday from September 29 th - December 22 nd, 7-9 pm at St. Mary's Church (Rectory Hall), 11 Clinton Street, Wappingers Falls, NY. Visit nyfamilylife.org/ separated-divorced or contact Carmen Noschese at Carmen.noschese@archny.org or Kathy Wither at LIGHTHOUSE CD S AND BROCHURES The talks are available in the narthex. For questions, call Dusty Maiolo at (845) FAITH FORMATION NEWS 9 th Grade Confirmation Students Confirmation retreats are on Wednesday, September 9 th and Sunday, September 13 th. If your child intends to be confirmed, please make sure you have submitted your yellow registration form for either retreat, and your choice of Sundays or Tuesdays confirmation prep classes. Please call the office if you have a question. Office Hours and Registration Our office is open this week, Monday Thursday, 10 am 4 pm. Families needing to register their children should do so this week! The Faith Formation Office will be sending out an to registered families with important information on August 20 th. Baptismal records are needed for all new students! Several positions are still available for our program. If you are interested in spreading the Good News of Jesus to the next generation of the Church, please call x3, or Heidi Reale at sktfaithform@optonline.net. There will be a meeting for new catechists/assistants on Tuesday, September 1 st, from 7-9 pm, in the Faith Formation building. Don't miss out, call our office early this week to see what positions are still available, including office help, attendance and hall monitors. Thank you! All Faith Formation classes will begin the week of Monday, September 14 th. We look forward to seeing you in September! ADOPT-A-NIGHT PROGRAM For the past six years, Saint Kateri Tekakwitha has participated in the Adopt-A-Night Program for the Dutchess County Coalition for the Homeless located at Hillcrest House in Poughkeepsie. Volunteers provided and served meals each third Saturday of each month at Hillcrest House for up to seventy homeless adults. Hillcrest House is the only walk-in shelter in Dutchess County. It depends on volunteers to prepare and serve meals each night. How it works: a coordinator decides on a meal and solicits volunteers for the following: 1 up to 6 volunteers prepare a hot entrée for a serving of up to 2 volunteers prepare a salad with dressing 3. up to 2 volunteers provide bread 4. up to 2 volunteers provide a dessert 5. no more than 5 volunteers serve the meal that evening The following are the dates we are committed to serve: September 19, 2015, October 17, 2015, November 21, 2015, December 19, 2015, January 16, 2016, February 20, 2016, March 19, 2016, April 16, 2016, May 21, 2016, June 18, 2016, July 16, 2016, and August 20, Confirmation candidates can earn service hours by cooking and preparing meals that adults bring and serve to the shelter. To coordinate or volunteer, contact Vivian LaColla at vivianlacolla@gmail.com. ST. KATERI PARENT-CHILD CONNECTION This week's gathering is TBD. Contact Kira Gorman, kirazgman@yahoo.com or

4 TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME First Reading: Joshua 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel and told them if it did not please them to serve God, then they must decide who they would serve. The people claimed that God had brought them out of slavery and protected them on their journey. Therefore, they would serve, the Lord their God, and no one else. Second Reading: Ephesians 5:21-32 or 5:2a, Husbands and wives should love one another as Christ loved the Church. They should nourish and care for each other as Christ cared for the church. Through the union between the two, they become one. Gospel: John 6:60-69 Many of Jesus' followers were still disturbed by his teaching of the living bread, which they could not yet fully understand. Jesus explained that the Spirit gives life, and flesh is unimportant. Some of the disciples decided to leave. Jesus asked if the Twelve also wanted to leave. Although they do not completely understand yet, they have enough faith in Jesus to stay because they believe he is God's holy one Bon Venture Services, Inc. A FRESH PERSPECTIVE ON THE SUNDAY READINGS HIS WORD TODAY by Rev. William J. Reilly Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time August 23, 2015 If it does not please you to serve the Lord, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your fathers served beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites As for me and my household we will serve the Lord. This saying is hard; who can accept it? Does this shock you?...but there are some of you who do not believe For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by my Father. We make countless decisions every day. What will I wear, what route will I take, what do I wish to eat. They are routine decisions. Joshua calls our attention to decide what God we will serve, as well as how we will serve Him. He spoke about the pagan gods, yet we are confronted by gods or idols, such as money, prestige, reputation or material things. They secretly occupy our time and attention. Today the word of God can shake us, or in the words of Jesus shock us. Isn t it about time to take stock of our lives and ask what we can do to draw closer to our God? If we are honest, don t we get caught sometimes only going through the motions? Does my prayer life, my worship and my service reflect a decision made from my heart and not just my head? Joshua told his followers to decide then and there and not put it off. The Lord looks for my decision today. MISSA A NOSSA SENHORA DE FATIMA On Saturday, September 12 th at 6:30 pm, there will be a mass and procession of candles in honor of Our Lady of Fatima, at St. Kateri Tekakwitha. With the assistance of the Portuguese Church of Our Lady of Fatima in Yonkers, NY, the mass will be offered by Reverend Osvaldo Franklin. Please call Mr. Manuel or Mrs. Gloria Amorim at for information or if you wish to have the mass dedicated to someone or if you have a child who wishes to participate by dressing as angels. Ordering of correct size of angel costumes needs to be done ASAP. There will be a picnic at 11 am prior to mass at Lomala Civic Center, 108 Broadway, Hopewell, NY Reservations are a must due to limited seating. We appreciate small monetary donations or desserts to help with this event. This is a great opportunity to form the "Hudson Valley Portuguese Cultural Center." SAVE THE DATE! ST. DENIS ST. COLUMBA SCHOOL TOP TASTES OF THE TOWN Join the 5 th Annual Top Tastes of the Town on Tuesday, September 22 nd from 6:30-8:30 pm at St. Denis St. Columba School. Enjoy adults-only food and wine fest, sampling unlimited appetizers, entrées, desserts and wine from many of the area's premier establishments. Buy tickets by ing SDSCTopTastes@gmail.com. Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/sdsctoptastesofthetown or call Mary Ann Menuau at DAYS FOR LIFE SEPTEMBER 23 RD NOVEMBER 1 ST "40 Days for Life" is a peaceful, highly-focused, nondenominational initiative focusing on 40 days of prayer and fasting, peaceful vigil at abortion facilities, and educational outreach with the goal of protecting mothers and their children from abortion. Since 2007 at least 10,331 unborn children have been saved from abortion during "40 Days for Life" campaigns, and 60 abortion facilities have closed. Visit 40daysforlife.com. WHAT IS NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING? Natural Family Planning (NFP) is the general title for the scientific, natural and moral methods of family planning that can help married couples either achieve or postpone pregnancies. NFP methods are based on the observation of the naturally occurring signs and symptoms of the fertile and infertile phases of a woman's menstrual cycle. No drugs, devices, or surgical procedures are used to avoid pregnancy. Since the methods of NFP respect the love-giving (unitive) and life-giving (procreative) nature of the conjugal act, they support God's design for married love. For information on NFP methods, benefits, and effectiveness, go to usccb.org. CURSILLO WEEKENDS The Men's Retreat is September 24 th -27 th, and the Women's Retreat is October 22 th -25 th. For information, call Ginger Fisher at

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