Church of St Monica 413 East 79th Street, New York, NY 10075 Tel: 212-288-6250 / 6251 Fax: 212-570-1562 Email: info@churchofstmonica.org Website: www.churchofstmonica.org PASTOR: Rev. Peter M. Colapietro ASSOCIATES: Rev. Joe A. Francis Rev. Joby Mathew IN SUNDAY SERVICE: Rev. Richard Arold ORGANIST & DIRECTOR OF MUSIC: Mr. David Schaefer CANTOR & LEADER OF SONG: Mr. Joseph Neal FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT (A) When Jesus sees the blind man, he says, While I am in the world, I am the light of the world. Once the blind man is healed the people ask, Isn t this the one who used to sit and beg? They betray their own blindness: man sees the appearance but the Lord looks into the heart. The blind man answers using words that Christ uses himself; he says, I am. Is this a coincidence? The man was born blind so that the works of God might be made visible through him. Light produces every kind of goodness and righteousness and truth. The Light who is Christ produces goodness in us by which we come to resemble Christ himself. We beg for the ability to look into the heart of each person we meet and to see reality the way God does. BAPTISMS & MARRIAGES: By Appointment only. Please contact a member of the parish staff well in advance. SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: 5:00 PM on Saturdays Anytime by appointment COMMUNION FOR THE HOMEBOUND: Anyone who cannot attend church because of illness or age, please contact the parish office, so that arrangements can be made to bring communion to you. MASSES Sundays: 7:30 AM; 9:00 AM; 10:30 AM & 12 NOON (Principal Liturgy & Choir) Weekdays: 7:30 AM & 12 NOON Saturdays: 9:00 AM & 5:30 PM (Vigil) March 30, 2014 UPCOMING EVENTS RCIA SCHEDULE Thursday evenings at 7:30pm 8:30pm In the RECTORY EVENING MASS Monday through Friday at 6:00 PM OFFICE HOURS WEEKDAYS: 9:30 AM - 7:45 PM SATURDAYS: 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM SUNDAYS: 10:30 AM - 2:30 PM SPECIAL DEVOTIONS Rosary Weekdays after the Noon Mass and on Saturday after the 9:00 AM mass Holy Hour First Friday of each month after the Noon Mass Devotions Miraculous Medal on Mondays after each Mass
Page 2 TODAY S READINGS First Reading As the prophet Samuel anointed David with oil, the spirit of the LORD rushed upon David (1 Samuel 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a), [Page: 511]. Second Reading You who were once darkness are now light in the Lord (Ephesians 5:8-14), [Page: 512]. Gospel The man who had been blind from birth proclaimed: The one called Jesus made clay with his saliva, anointed my eyes with it, and told me to wash (John 9:1-41), [Page: 512]. READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Is 65:17-21; Ps 30:2, 4-6, 11-13b; Jn 4:43-54 Tuesday: Ez 47:1-9, 12; Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9; Jn 5:1-16 Wednesday: Is 49:8-15; Ps 145:8-9, 13cd- 14, 17-18; Jn 5:17-30 Thursday: Ex 32:7-14; Ps 106:19-23; Jn 5:31-47 Friday: Wis 2:1a, 12-22; Ps 34:17-21, 23; Jn 7:1-2, 10, 25-30 Saturday:Jer 11:18-20; Ps 7:2-3, 9bc-12; Jn 7:40-53 Sunday: Ez 37:12-14; Ps 130:1-8; Rom 8:8-11; Jn 11:1-45 PRAYERS FOR THE DECEASED I ve gone to prepare a place for you. + Delores Coards, Dora Fuba - Galluzzo Please pray for our deceased parishioners and friends. SATURDAY (MAR 29): VIGIL 5:30 PM James Devaney SUNDAY (MAR 30): FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT 7:30 AM Louis Fusco (Living) 9:00 AM Rev Dom Zef Gilay 10:30 AM Maureen Degnan 12 NOON St Monica Parishioners MONDAY (MAR 31): LENTEN WEEKDAY 7:30 AM Norma Angela Thabet 12 NOON Fr Thomas Mulvanerty 6:00 PM Olga Evans TUESDAY (APR 1): LENTEN WEEKDAY 7:30 AM In Thanksgiving 12 NOON Deceased priest of St. Monica 6:00 PM Edward Hendrickson WEDNESDAY (APR 2): LENTEN WEEKDAY 7:30 AM Emilia Rosa Nascimento 12 NOON Helen Quinn (Living) 6:00 PM Special Intention THURSDAY (APR 3) : LENTEN WEEKDAY 7:30 AM John Collins 12 NOON Dorothy & Charles Crowell 6:00 PM Leonard Bisceglin FRIDAY (APR 4): LENTEN WEEKDAY 7:30 AM Evelyn D. Casseus 12 NOON Souls in Purgatory 6:00 PM In Thanksgiving to St Agata SATURDAY (APR 5): LENTEN WEEKDAY 9:00 AM Mrs Kay Manthorne PRAYERS FOR THE SICK Please remember in your prayers: Teddy Moore, Mia Catherine Trammel, Fred Janek, Thomas Mathew, Sheela Kurien and those wounded in Military Action Remember your loved ones by dedicating in their honor Altar Bread & Wine or Sanctuary Light This Week s Bread and Wine and Sanctuary Light + In Loving Memory of Edward Hendrickson Requested by Eileen Hendrickson If you wish to add the names of your loved one to the prayer list, please notify the rectory: (212) 288-6250.
TODAY S HYMNS Fourth Sunday of Lent (A) Welcome to St. Monica's! The music for today's Eucharist can be found in our hymnal on the following pages: Entrance Hymn 295 We are the Light of the World Penitential Rite 112 Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison Responsorial Psalm 511 The Lord is my shepherd; There is nothing I shall want. Gospel Acclamation 114 Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, King of endless glory! I am the light of the world, says the Lord; whoever follows me will have the light of life. Offertory Hymn Increase Our Faith sung by Joseph Neal At Noon: Stabat Mater (T. Dubois) sung by Nelson Roman, Tamara Hayes, & `Rose Marie Pratt with the choir Sanctus 185 Memorial Acclamation * Great Amen * The Lord's Prayer 120 Lamb of God 187 Communion Hymn 282 Jesus, My Lord, My God, My all Recessional Hymn 375 The Summons *from the Mass For A New Era. (at noon: from the Mass of Celebration) for texts, see pew card LENT INFORMATION PLEASE REMEMBER Both in life and in death, we belong to the Lord (Romans 14). Please remember St Monica s Church in your will. Page 3 During the forty days of Lent, Monday thru Friday we will celebrate an evening Mass at 6:00pm. Intentions will be available for these Masses. Please remember our forty day Lenten support is for The Dwelling Place. A privately funded transitional residence for women. Please visit www.thedwellingplaceofny.org or call (212) 564-7887. Thank you for your generosity. REFLECTING ON GOD S WORD Most of us can recognize times when we are in the dark and occasions when we carry darkness in our hearts, just as there are moments when we feel enlightened and find that our vision is clear. It is quite another thing to become identified with darkness or with light. The first words of today s reading from the Letter to the Ephesians stand out for their boldness: You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord (Ephesians 5:8). We get a glimpse of what it means to be light in the Lord both from Samuel, who finally sees as God sees, and in the courageous behavior of the man born blind after Jesus has healed him. Samuel anoints Israel s greatest king, David, and the man born blind comes to faith in Jesus as Lord. The man born blind is one of those strong figures found in John s Gospel. Like the woman at the well, we never learn his name but we come to know his heart. His speech is straightforward, whether speaking to his neighbors, the Pharisees, or Jesus. You can hear the gradual dawning of faith as he responds to those around him, from the simple He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see to He is a prophet, to his answer to Jesus question about having faith in the Son of man standing before him, I do believe, Lord (John 9:15, 17, 38). In the beginning God Spoke. Those first words have never stopped bringing about what they said: Let there be light (Genesis 1:3). LIVING GOD S WORD We pray to God as the ineffable light, calling forth from the darkness of fear and prejudice and hatred men and women who choose to live in the light of Christ. We pray God to remove our attraction to the darkness, replacing it with a love for the Light.
COURTESY ANNOUNCEMENTS Fordham University Graduate School of Religion is holding conferences on March 28 th, 29 th and April 25 at the Rose Hill Campus. For more information call 718-817 -5966 or email www.fordham.edu/gre/ events MARYMOUNT SCHOOL Marymount School, 1026 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028 is getting ready to begin their Spring Tours. For further information email www.marymountnyc.org CATHOLIC COLLEGE STUDENTS MASS MOB NYC Michael Cadigan, a student from the Catholic Newman Center at CUNY Queens College, heard about something that s happening to energize city parishes around the country, and decided to make it happen here The New York City Mass Mob. Over the past couple of years the Mass Mob movement has made for a lot of great, new vitality in the local Churches where its grown. Just click on the group s official website and find out more about and become part of this amazing adventure: www.nycmassmob.com or www.facebook.com/nycmassmob SAINTS OF OUR TIME Page 4 ST JOHN PAUL II St. John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla was born in 1920, the youngest of three children in Wadowice, Poland. Karol was a brilliant student with a natural facility for languages and love for music and theater. Eventually he would learn at least 12 different languages, an asset he would use again and again in the world travels that marked his papacy. Due to the German occupation of Poland during World War II, Wojtyla had to attend seminary classes held in secret at the Archbishop s residence in Krakow. With his personal history of friendships with Jews, he would become the first pope to pray at a synagogue and at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. ST JOHN XXIII Angelo Roncalli was born in 1881, in Sotto II Monte, Italy. His parents were tenant farmers. An excellent student who entered the seminary at 12 years old, at eighteen, he wrote: Everything I possess, my being, life, understanding, will and memory all were given to me by God, so I belong to him. At the age of 71, he was elevated to the rank of cardinal. In 1958 he attended the conclave of cardinals to elect a new pope after the death of Pope Pius XII. Never expecting to become pope, as the story is told, he had a return train ticket back to Venice in his pocket, which, of course, he would never use. 2 0 1 4 GOOD FRIDAY APRIL 18 RECONCILIATION (CONFESSION) MONDAY, APRIL 14 4 pm to 8 pm HOLY THURSDAY APRIL 17 9:00 AM Morning Prayer 8:00 PM Mass of The Lord s Supper with Choir Visits to Repository until 11:00 PM Volunteers are needed for the washing of the feet on Holy Thursday. If you wish to participate, please call the parish office (212-288-6251). HOLY SATURDAY APRIL 19 9:00 AM Morning Prayer 12 NOON Stations of the Cross 3:00 PM Liturgy of The Lord s Passion & Holy Communion with Choir 8:00 PM Stations & Veneration of the Cross *Confession available during all Services* 9:00 AM Morning Prayer 8:30 PM Easter Vigil Liturgy with Choir & Festival Ensemble EASTER SUNDAY APRIL 20 Masses at 7:30am; 9:00am; 10:30am; Principal Mass at 12 Noon with Choir & Festival Ensemble at the 10:30am and 12 Noon Masses
Page 5 Cardinal s Appeal Updates (St Monica s Church) As of March 28, 2014: Pledge Paid Gifts Av. Gift Parish Goal $62,000.00 $57,000.00 110 $563.00 $79,000.00 Pledge as percentage of the goal 78.5% 25% 50% 75% 100%
Page 6 COVER SHEET CHURCH NAME AND ADDRESS 511510: Church of St. Monica 413 East 79 th Street, NYC., NY 10075 PHONE: 212-288-6251 CONTACT PERSON: JoAnn M Freer SOFTWARE: Windows XP Professional Microsoft Word 2010 Adobe Acrobat X Microsoft Publisher PRINTER: Adobe PDF NUMBER OF PAGES: 1 through 5 SUNDAY DATE OF PUBLICATION: March 30, 2014 TRANSMISSION TIME: SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: Please use this copy for print