ST. MARK ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH

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1 St. Mark Church 2609 East 19th Street Brooklyn, New York Mass Schedule: Saturday: 5:00 p.m. Vigil Mass Sunday: 8:00 a.m., 10:15 a.m., 12:30 p.m. Weekdays: 8:30 a.m. Holy Days: 7:30 p.m. Vigil Mass 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m. Phone: Fax: St. Margaret Mary Church Ocean Ave. & Oriental Blvd. Manhattan Beach, New York Mass Schedule: Sunday: 11:00 a.m. Wednesday: 9:00 a.m. Website: ST. MARK ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH Pastor: Very Rev. Robert V. Mucci Parochial Vicar: Rev. Sergiy Emanuel Parochial Vicar: Rev. Michael Panicali In Residence: Rev. Joseph P. Quigley Deacon: Rev. Mr. Paul Morin In Residence: Rev. Joseph Zwosta Devotions: Miraculous Medal Novena every Wednesday after the 8:30 a.m. Mass Litany of the Sacred Heart every First Friday 8:20 a.m. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament every First Friday from Noon to 3 p.m. Baptism: Fourth Sunday of each month at 2:00 p.m. Required Baptism classes take place on the third Sunday of each month at 9:30 a.m. in the Rectory Conference Room. Call the Rectory during office hours to make an appointment with a priest two (2) months prior to the Baptism. Marriage: Please make arrangements by calling the Rectory at least 6 months in advance. Please log on to for complete information about marriage preparation in the diocese, according to diocesan regulations. Anointing of the Sick: First Saturday of the month at the 8:30 p.m. Mass. Confessions: Saturdays, 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Appointment to see a Priest: If you desire an appointment to meet with a priest, please call the parish office. Office hours are Monday through Friday from 9:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Parish Office: Ms. Jacqueline Biagioni Ms. Teresa Zwosta, Ms. Maureen Aoun St. Mark School: Mrs. Carol Donnelly, Principal Mrs. Lori Ryan, Secretary St. Mark Religious Education: Ms. Jo Ann Pino Youth Ministry Coordinator: Mr. Michael Davis Sports Program Director: Mr. Wayne Walker St. Mark Choir: Mr. Jim Trainor, Director of Music St. Vincent De Paul Group: Mr. Tom Scalese, President Ms. Jean Hogan, Vice President Homebound Ministry: Ms. Maureen Genoversa, Coordinator Ministers of Hospitality: Mr. Tom Scalese Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist: Mrs. Geraldine Kubat, Coordinator Lectors: Ms. Stephanie Rizzo, Coordinator Rosary Society: Ms. Kathy Fackovec, President Mrs. Maria Mansuroglu, Vice President Friendship Club: Ms. Anita Troise, President Ms. Josephine Bonnano, Vice President With God all things are possible

2 St. Mark Church Saturday, July 28 5:00 p.m. Victor E. Gonzalez Sunday, July 29 8:00 a.m. The People of the Parish 10:15 a.m. Mark Bolus (Birthday) 12:30 p.m. Robert Caragher Monday, July 30 St. Peter Chrysologus 8:30 a.m. Jose Tayo Tuesday, July 31 St. Ignatius of Loyola 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, August 1 Saint Alphonsus Liguori 8:30 a.m. Grace DeMarco (Anniversary) Thursday, August 2 Saints Eusebius of Vercelli & Saint Peter Julian Eymard 8:30 a.m. Friday, August 3 8:30 a.m. Patrice Francois (In Thanksgiving) Saturday, August 4 Saint John Vianney 8:30 a.m. Teresa Pisani 5:00 p.m. Peter & Hilda Perrinez Please join our Pro-Life group as we pray the Rosary after daily Mass. St. Margaret Mary Church Sunday, July 29 11:00 a.m. Living & Deceased Members of the Cione & Chille Families Wednesday, August 1 9:00 a.m. Danielle & Ryan McGrisken (Marriage Blessings) Sunday, August 5 11:00 a.m. Gerard Gagliardi Miraculous Medal Novena Wednesday after the 9:00 AM Mass Homebound in Manhattan Beach: If you or someone you know would like to have a Eucharistic Minister visit and administer Holy Communion; please call Gilda at Also, please advise Gilda of any sick parishioner who wishes to be included in the Prayer of the Faithful at Sunday Mass. July 29, 2018 SEVENTEENTH Sunday in Ordinary Time As was the case with Jesus during his earthly ministry, we can also take the basic things of life that God provides and use them to transform the lives of those around us. Today s Readings: 2 Kings 4:42-44 Psalm 145:16 Ephesians 4:1-6 John 6:1-15 Please pray for the sick: Jack Shanker, Olivia Lopez, Tina Cook, Daniel Paluszek, Jimmy Grillo, Lisa Lovbosco, Laura Durant, Hope Schwartz, Al Comodo, Georgette Scalese, Steven Lentini, Marie Giannotti, Carissa D Alba, Kimberly Palmo, Alfred DeMola, Walter Brady, Catherine Staren, Jennifer Costa, Romilda Zambelli, John Angelo Buccheri, Raymond Fazio, Mark Aragona, Olivia LaSpina, Saul Godinez, Maria Calise, Rachel Marin, Linda DeFrancesco, Joseph John Buccheri, Sally Frances Buccheri, & Diane Camacho who is in need of a kidney donor: COME SPEND TIME WITH JESUS FIRST FRIDAY AUGUST 3rd Holy Hour: after 9 am Mass at St. Margaret Mary PLEASE NOTE: Summer Hours During the months of July & August the rectory office will be closed on Fridays. St. Mark welcomes our Ukrainian & Russian speaking parishioners: Mass in Ukrainian 1st Sunday of the Month Mass in Russian 3rd Sunday of the Month Gifts are available to honor a loved one, bread & wine, candles, flowers. Please call the rectory for details. There are open dates for mass intentions at St. Mark: August 12,14,18,19,20, 22,24,25,28,29,30,31

3 Pastor s Column July 28 29, 2018 "Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?" Growing up, we always had an abundance of food in our house, which probably comes as no surprise to most of you. My Mom, who was not Italian, learned how to cook like an Italian from my Father s mother. No matter how many friends my brothers and sister and I may have had over the house and might ask at the last minute, Mom, can my friends stay for dinner, the answer was always the same: Sure, as long as it s OK with their parents. And there was always more than enough for everyone, with plenty of leftovers to spare. In Italy they have a word which became a slogan for Mama Celeste frozen pizza, abbondanza, which means abundance. Our readings this weekend are all about God s abundance. In our Old Testament reading the prophet Elisha orders his servant to give the twenty barley loaves that have been brought to him to the people to eat. When his servant objects saying, How can I set this before a hundred people? Elisha prophesies, Thus says the Lord, they shall eat, and there shall be some left over. And sure enough, when they had eaten, there was some left over, just as the Lord had said. Next, in our responsorial psalm we hear: The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs. But the theme of God s abundance is even stronger in our Gospel. Our Gospel reading offers St. John s account of Jesus miracle of the loaves and fish, his only miracle to be recorded in all four gospels. In this story, everything is on a huge scale. It begins with Jesus crossing the Sea of Galilee as a large crowd follows him up a mountain, about five thousand men in number, not to mention the women and children. When Jesus asks where his disciples can buy food for them, Philip responds, Two hundred days wages worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little. Contrasted with the immensity of everything in that scene is the poverty of the resources at hand. Andrew reports: There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what good are these for so many? Notice that it is a child, a boy, someone not important enough to be counted among the five thousand who puts at Jesus disposal what little he has. But in the hands of Jesus, it is more than enough. St. John says, Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them and also as much of the fish as they wanted, and after they had their fill, the disciples filled twelve wicker baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves that had been more than they could eat. When we give what we have to Jesus, when we put our meager resources at his disposal, when we come to him in our humility and our simplicity and our poverty as we do every time we gather together to celebrate the Eucharist, Jesus gives back to us abundantly. He takes our gifts and talents that we offer to share with one another and he multiplies them and gives back to us many times over. My brother Knights and sister Columbiettes of the Baron DeKalb who join us this weekend at the 12:30 Mass for their Fifth Sunday celebration know this very well. It is an attitude and a way of life demonstrated by so many members of this great organization and which was particularly exemplified by Past Grand Knight Bobby Caragher in whose memory that Mass is being offered. The secret is the more we are able to focus on the needs of others, the more generous we are with the gifts that God has given us, the more our own wants and needs are fulfilled. Fr. Bob

4 Sunday Collection: July 22, 2018 St. Mark Church 1st Collection: $3, nd Collection: $ Attendance: 460 Envelopes Returned: 106 St Margaret Mary Church 1st Collection: $ nd Collection: $ Attendance: 39 Envelopes Returned: 9 Generations of Faith: # Donors Pledged Paid St. Mark 171 $627,147 $368,647 St. Margaret 17 $69,530 $36,209 Mary Final Annual Catholic Appeal 2017: THANK YOU! St. Mark St. Margaret Mary Goal: $40,125 $2,354 Received: $55,040 $6,655 Annual Catholic Appeal 2018: THANK YOU!! Goal: $40,125 $2,354 Pledged: $74,988 $9,238 Received: $56,742 $8,273 Meets Thursday nights 7:00 in the Upper Room St. Mark Academy St. Mark Rosary Society Informal Get Together Please join us on Sunday, August 5th after the 10:15 a.m. Mass in the Lion s Den. Upcoming Events WITH FR. MIKE THE LETTERS OF ST. PAUL TUESDAY EVENINGS JULY 17 TO AUG. 21 7:00 PM IN THE UPPER ROOM USE THE 18TH STREET ENTRANCE TO THE SCHOOL ACROSS FROM THE POST OFFICE BRING YOUR BIBLE & YOUR BRAINS. Diocese of Brooklyn Pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. Saturday, October 27, 2018 Pilgrimage led by Most Reverend Nicholas DiMarzio, Bishop of Brooklyn In order to make this a prayerful experience for all, we need to plan early. We will either hire a bus or team up with other parishes to make this a fruitful experience. Please call the rectory to let us know if you are interested so that we may plan accordingly. The estimated cost is $50/person, buses will depart early morning (4 hour travel time). A.M. departure GOOD COUNSEL HOMES THANKS YOU The Moms, babies, staff and volunteers of Good Counsel Homes are thankful for the extreme generosity of the parishioners of St Mark. The envelopes returned to date amounted to 2, Your response to help our mothers and babies speaks to your commitment to our home and those in need and we thank you. tara_ingebritsen@goodcounselhomes.org (you can still mail in your envelopes to our office if you forgot ) Join us on a Diocesan Lenten Pilgrimage To The Holy Land. Bishop Neil Tiedemann, Spiritual Director and Msgr. Kieran Harrington, Chaplain March 7-15, 2019 For a Brochure Contact Prestige Worldwide Tours samantha@pwwtours.com

5 Office of Faith Formation No Summer Office Hours YEAR S St. John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, is appropriately depicted with a quill pen. Celebrated on September 13, this patron saint of orators, preachers, speakers, and educators was named Chrysostom (which means goldenmouthed ) on account of his speaking eloquence. Born in 344 in Antioch to Christian parents, his mother was widowed at the age of twenty and was a model of virtue. He studied rhetoric under Libanius, the most famous orator of his age, and was ordained a priest at a little over forty years of age. By 398, St. John headed the See of Constantinople, and had become one of the greatest lights of the Church. Due to his prominence and talents he was not without enemies -- the most notable being the Empress Eudoxia, who took offense at the apostolic freedom of his discourses. A number of accusations were made against him, and he was sent into exile. Much like St. Paul the Apostle, whom he greatly revered, St. John found peace and tranquility in the midst of his great sufferings. While he knew that the Pope was his friend and had done everything in his power to help him, his enemies were not satisfied with the sufferings he already endured, and they had him banished all the way to Pythius, at the very extremity of the Eastern Roman Empire. He died while en route there on September 14, 407. St. John, one of thirty-five doctors of the Catholic Church, is hailed as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox, Catholic and Anglican churches. PRAYER: God, You are the strength of those who hope in You. You gave Your Church St. John Chrysostom, Your bishop, who was endowed with great eloquence and was able to withstand great sufferings. Let us learn from his teaching and be inspired by the example of his patience. Amen. ***REGISTRATION FOR NEXT RELIGION CLASSES HAS BEGUN*** Please remember your child s faith formation is ongoing. Receiving First Holy Communion does not mean they stop attending religion classes. The continuation of their faith formation is ongoing toward the Sacrament of Confirmation, which they receive in the 8th grade. Please contact Ms. Pino for more information at Registration can be done online at stmarkbrooklyn.org or at the rectory during the months of July & August. Call the rectory for office hours Register early for a discounted price. As of August 1st there will be a $25.00 late fee. Classes will begin on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018 COME Rite of AND SEE: Christian Initiation of Adults We invite all who seek a deeper life in Jesus Christ to consider becoming members of the Body of Christ in the Catholic Church through the Sacraments of Initiation. Please call the parish office to register You are welcome here. Classes begin Oct. 14, 2018