381 North Highland Avenue Ossining, NY 10562 Office: (914) 9410067 Fax: (914) 9440828 JANUARY 3, 2021

 REV. BRIAN T. McSWEENEY, PASTOR REV. JEANPIERRE SEON, PAROCHIAL VICAR REV. MATTHEW UGWOJI, IN RESIDENCE STEVEN A. DeMARTINO DEACON CLIFF C. CALANNI DEACON JOHN A. BARBERA PARISH TRUSTEES: Oscar Montes and Carole Simonetti PARISH OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR: Joan Pires PARISH FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR: Mary Anne Dempsey MUSICAL DIRECTOR & ORGANIST: Bozena Romano (914) 7393527 SCHOOL PRINCIPAL: Sr. Mary Elizabeth Donoghue, O.P. (914) 9413849 RELIGIOUS EDUCATION COORDINATOR: Patricia Barbera (914) 9416663 PARISH SUPERINTENDENT: Mario Gutierrez CEMETERY SUPERINTENDENT: John Massey (914) 9416711 SENIOR CENTER COORDINATORS: Nancy Knight and Janice Paganelli (914) 9232268 YOUTH GROUP COORDINATOR: Tony Corda (914) 3731548 CYO BASKETBALL COORDINATORS: Tammy Alves (914) 7294093 & Kara Calandrello

MASSES ADŽǕNJǗNJǕNJdžǔ CǐǎǎNJǕǕdždžǔ SATURDAY: 8:30AM, 5:00PM Adult Choir Advocates for People with   SUNDAY: 8:00AM, 10:00AM  Altar Servers Special Needs 12:00 NOON, 6:00PM Children’s Choir Bereavement Support Group  MONDAY  FRIDAY: 6:30AM, 8:30AM CYO Cemetery  Extraordinary Ministers of  Festival Planning HOLY DAYS: as announced Holy Communion  Finance  CONFESSIONS: Saturdays: 9:0010:00AM  Knights of Columbus Home and School also by appointment Lectors Parish Council  ADORATION: Thursday 9:00AM to 6:30PM  Parish Social Ministry  : Call the Parish Office  Scouts Boys/Girls St. Augustine Society for an appointment Senior Center St. ’s Men’s Group  Ushers St. Vincent de Paul Society MARRIAGES: Please arrange six months  Youth Group in advance.

   The local conference Board of the St. Vincent de Paul Society meets regularly, with prayer and spiritual reflection, at the Parish Office, where volunteers personally serve local persons in desperate circumstances by offering prayer, personal attention and financial help. Shortterm gifts can be offered to assist with rent, utilities, food and clothing. If you are in need, please call Deacon Steven DeMartino at (914) 3303727 to make a confidential request.

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        of the Lord             MONDAY, JANUARY 4 (St. Elizabeth Ann Seton):      6:30 AM Patricia Cavalieri While we can continue to remain safely at home for our sake and  8:30 AM Dan Finnegan   for the sake of others, we can still participate in the traditional TUESDAY, JANUARY 5 (St. John Neumann): services at 10:00 am and 12:00 Noon every Sunday. A 6:30 AM Angelo Apollonio Dispensation from Sunday Obligation is still in effect for those 8:30 AM Debbie O’Connor/Shaina Danielle Cohen who are not comfortable returning at this time.   WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6: Please stay connected via:   6:30 AM Julia Hunter FLOCKNOTE ~ Flocknote.com; WEBSITE ~  8:30 AM William Scumaci & William J. Scumaci  staugny.org; FACEBOOK ~ Augustine ; or   Robert Stibler      YOU TUBE ~ Saint Augustine’s Ossining THURSDAY, JANUARY 7:   6:30 AM JoAnn Murphy    8:30 AM Al Otero  The Cardinal’s Annual FRIDAY, JANUARY 8: Stewardship Appeal serves our  6:30 AM For a Special Intention spiritual communities across our  8:30 AM Andrew J. Panken  10 counties. If you have not yet SATURDAY, JANUARY 9: made your pledge to the  8:30 AM Christos, Theresa & Christine Sirakos/  Cardinal’s Appeal, please make   Battesima Arena  your commitment today. Remember, you can pledge your gift 5:00 PM Joseph “Pepe” Barreiro/Dawn Marie Beldotti  now and make payments in the coming months. To date, SUNDAY, JANUARY 10: $106,843 has been received from 200 donors. Please join them  8:00 AM  Joseph Leary in order for us to meet our goal of $175,000.  10:00 AM For all of our Parishioners & Benefactors   Manuel Diaz Lagdamen, Sr.  12:00 Noon Nicholas, Armando & Ill Sarcone     Edward Cahill   6:00 PM Arthur Pritchard      Sanctuary Lamp Memorials   The Christian Community of Augustine Parish would like to The Sanctuary Lamp will burn the week welcome with great joy those reborn by water and the Holy of January 4 ~ 10 Spirit: Gregory Kristensen on January 2 in Loving Memory of  Dawn Marie Beldotti. Hailey Paige Krebser on January 3  Philipekees Calderon Baltazar on January 3   May God who has begun this great work in you bring it to  completion in the Kingdom of Heaven.        If you haven’t already, you might consider THIS BULLETIN WAS SENT TO THE enrolling in WeShare. WeShare  is an PRINTER BEFORE THE COLLECTION alternative means of support for St. Augustine Parish instead of using AMOUNTS WERE CALCULATED envelopes. In lieu of weekly collections, FOR LAST WEEKEND theWeShareprogram will collect monthly AND FOR OUR CLUB. contributions via your checking, savings, or credit card account.There is NO cost to  you to participate in the program.  VÉÅx Äxà âá twÉÜx [|Å4  How do I enroll? EUCHARISTIC ADORATION  To safeguard your personal information, enrollment can be done Spend a little time with Our Lord directly at the WeShare website: https:// staugny.churchgiving.comorby calling WeShare Customer Care Every Thursday from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm at 18009509952, press #3 and then press #2 .  The process Holy Hour (Morning Prayer, Rosary, takes less than 5 minutes. OR mail a weekly check to Mary Anne Dempsey, our Parish Financial Administrator, at St. Augustine Chaplet of Divine Mercy) from 9:00 am – 10:00 am Parish Office, 381 North Highland Avenue, Ossining, NY 10562. Compline and Solemn Eucharistic Benediction at 6:30 pm. THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD

    THE BLESSING OF HOMES ‘AMORIS LAETITIA FAMILY’ YEAR  ON THE FEAST OF EPIPHANY TO BEGIN MARCH 19  One popular tradition for Epiphany dates from  the Middle Ages M the Blessing of Homes. At During his December 27 Angelus address, Francis Mass today, there will be a blessing of chalk. announced a year of reflection on his 2016 apostolic exhortation After Mass is over, take the blessed chalk Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love), devoted to joy in the family. The home with you. Using the blessed chalk, year begins on March 19, the fifth anniversary of the document’s mark the inside of the main door of the house with the initials of publication, and concludes on June 26, 2022, at the Tenth World the Magi M Magus , Magus , Magus Balthasar M Meeting of Families in Rome. and a code of the current year connected with crosses:    20+C+M+B+21    The real meaning of the initials C+ M+ B are the first letters of the URGES ALL FAMILIES TO LOOK blessing: Mansionem Benedicat (Latin, “May Christ bless TO , MARY, AND JOSEPH FOR ‘SURE this dwelling place”). After marking the doorway, pray: INSPIRATION’  Leader: “Lord God of Heaven and Earth, Who has revealed Your  The News that, Pope Francis urged onlybegotten Son to every nation by the guidance of a star: Bless families across the world to look to Jesus, Mary, and Joseph for this house and all who inhabit it. Fill them with the light of Christ, “sure inspiration.” In his Angelus address Dec. 27, the feast of the that their love for others may truly reflect thy love. We ask this , the pope encouraged Catholics to seek the renewal through Christ our Lord. Amen. May we, in this house, and all who of family life.He said: “It is good to reflect on the fact that the Son come to visit, to work and to play, remember these things of God wanted to be in need of the warmth of a family, like all throughout the coming year. May all who come and go here find children. Precisely for this reason, because it is Jesus’ family, the peace, comfort, joy, hope, love and , for Christ has come family of Nazareth is the model family, in which all families of the to dwell in this house and in these hearts. Amen. world can find their sure point of reference and sure All: May we be Christ’s light in the world. Amen. inspiration.”The pope said that Jesus’ childhood “unfolded in joy”  with Mary and Joseph. “In imitation of the Holy Family, we are  called to rediscover the educational value of the family unit: it must  be founded on the love that always regenerates relationships,  opening up horizons of hope,” he said.“Within the family, one can  experience sincere communion when it is a house of prayer, when  the affections are serious, profound, pure, when forgiveness  prevails over discord, when the daily harshness of life is softened  by mutual tenderness and serene adherence to God’s will.”  “In SAINT AUGUSTINE PARISH FAMILY WOULD LIKE TO this way, the family opens itself to the joy that God gives to all THANK ALL OUR DEDICATED PARISHIONERS WHO those who know how to give joyfully.” The pope said that joyful HELPED TO MAKE OUR CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS families were also dedicated to serving others and committed to SUCH A BEAUTIFUL AND SPIRITUALLYUPLIFTING building a better world. They evangelized others by “the example SUCCESS. of life.” But he acknowledged that all families haddifficulties and  We faced the challenges of the Pandemic, torrential winds arguments. “I would like to say something to you: if you quarrel and rain and a power outage with the grace and dignity within the family, do not end the day without making peace. ‘Yes, I that our Christmas Celebrations deserve. We would first quarreled,’ but before the end of the day, make peace. And do you like to thank Grand Knight Stephen Calcutti and our know why? Because cold war, day after day, is extremely parish Knights of Columbus who were ever present at our dangerous. It does not help,” he said. He urged families to use celebrations to insure all the directives regarding the three phrases as often as possible: “Please,” “Thank you,” and “I health and safety of our parishioners were adhered to. am sorry.” Saying “Please” enabled family members “not to be  intrusive in the life of others,” he said. Expressing gratitude, he Thank you to our , Lectors, Altar Servers and added, was “the lifeblood of the noble soul,” while apologizing was Ushers who always allow the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to hard, but necessary. The pope then announced a special year be celebrated with dignity.  marking the fifth anniversary of his apostolic exhortation on the Thank you to Bozena Romano and the members of the family, Amoris laetitia. The year, known officially as the Year Choirs, both Adult Choir and Children's Choir, who were “Amoris Laetitia Family,” will begin on March 19, 2021, and end on able to add their voices in song in diminished number June 26, 2022, with the celebration of the 10th World Meeting of because of the pandemic. Families in Rome. After reciting the Angelus, the pope expressed  A Thankyou to the Mann Family for faithfully hanging our sympathy forfamilies who had lost loved ones as a result of the wreaths each week of and then transforming them coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed more than 1,759,000 for Christmas; to Jennifer McHale who donates our lives worldwide as of Dec. 27, according to the Johns Hopkins Christmas Trees each year, to Ken and Mary Anne Coronavirus Resource Center. “I think also of the doctors, nurses Dempsey for decorating them; to Joan Pires, Eileen and all healthcare professionals whose great example on the front Giuseppi, Thomas Lupetin, and Emanuele Neves for line in fighting the spread of the virus has had significant decorating the Altar and Church with the poinsettias; repercussions on family life,” he said. “And today I entrust all Maria Vieira who decorates our Altar Candles and dutifully families to the Lord, especially those most tried by life’s difficulties cares for them; to Gae Savino for always decorating the and by the scourges of misunderstanding and division. May the entrance to our property and the entrance to our church. Lord, born in , grant them all the serenity and strength  to walk together in the way of goodness.” The pope concluded: AND FOR ANY THAT WE MAY HAVE OVERLOOKED “And do not forget these three words that will help so much to WHO WORKED “BEHIND THE SCENES” TO MAKE achieve family unity: ‘Please’  not to be intrusive, to respect OUR CHRISTMAS SEASON JOYFUL…EVEN IN 2020! others; ‘Thank you’  to thank each other, mutually, within the  wrong; and this apology  or when we quarrel  please say it  before the end of the day: make peace before the end of the day.”        St. Augustine School in Os-   sining will begin Registration  for the 20212022 school  year for PreK3 thru Grade 8  on 1/04/2021. A virtual  Open House will be held   1/12/21 at 7 PM. To register  for this virtual open house, visit us at  www.staugustineschool.org or email lstan-  [email protected].  We would like to extend our gratitude to the Youth Group for  keeping a wonderful annual tradition alive in our parish during  very challenging times. "The Living Nativity" typically  performed for the religious education program on the school stage  as part of the last class of the season, was recreated for the "small Prayer for Putting Away Christmas Decorations screen", recorded in our beautifully decorated church and shared using YouTube. The religiouseducation classes and anyone who Lord Jesus, today we have put all of our Christmas has access to Facebook or the internet was able to view. decorations away. We are entering into Ordinary Congratulations to these amazing young people who worked very Time, and our house looks “ordinary” again, too.But hard to performthis fantastic rendition. Very special thanks to the Lord, you know and we know that our house has a se- Directors and Youth Group Leaders Alyssa Mann and Kristina Jenney, our lovely Narrator Kelli Jenney, our stagehands Sean cret. Deep inside it, all of our Christmas decorations Naley and Tony Corda and our amazing cameraman/producer are still here. The blessing of Christmas is always with Greg DiRoma. Please take a moment to watch it, if you haven't us, kept in the deep, quiet places of the house.  And already: Lord, our lives will become ordinary again, too, but https://www.youtube.com/watch? you know that each of us has the grace of . v=RyekrXsHWwY&feature=youtube.com The grace you gave us is always with us, in the deep,  quiet places of our soul.  May we live the grace of  Christmas every day, only without all the trappings: BeInformed ~ January 3: We hope you are enjoying the free May we always give generously, receive gifts grate- parish subscription to www.formed.org which gives you 24/7 access to over 300 quality Catholic online programs, 99+ fully, welcome others, and study your life. May our movies, 101+ audios, & 98+ EBooks. Simply register with parish house be a home with Christmas at its core, and our code W3JKWN and enjoy. Wednesday is the Solemnity of The souls a home where Jesus always dwells. Epiphany of the Lord. Watch The Story of the Nativity, Ready Reasons, Were the Magi at Jesus’ Birth?, or for children  Francis: O Holy Night. Listen to: Prepare the Way of the King,  God Made Man, The Mystery of Christmas, The Story of THE CARDINAL CALLED THE PARISH ON MONDAY Christmas, or The King is Born. MORNING TO SEE HOW WE ARE ALL DOING. I TOLD HIM WE WERE WELL, THANK GOD, AND THAT WE   CELEBRATED CHRISTMAS MASSES JOYFULLY DE- "You Are Not Alone  SPITE THE PANDEMIC AND ALL OTHER UNFORSEEN On Your Grief Journey ..." CHALLENGES. St. Augustine Bereavement Support Groups continue to be conducted via Zoom from   WELCOME TO ST. AUGUSTINE CHURCH 7:00  8:30 pm twicemonthly for individuals 381 NORTH HIGHLAND AVENUE grievingthe loss of a loved one. OSSINING, NEW YORK 10562  (914) 9410067 A schedule of the Bereavement Support Groupsinclude:   Our warmest welcome to all who celebrate with us…Whether Monday, Westchester Addiction Bereavement Support Group longtime residents or newly arrived in this parish, we thank  God for you! Tuesday, Spousal/Partner Loss BereavementSupport Group    If you are not registered, please fill out this form below and drop Wednesday, Parent Loss BereavementSupport Group  it into the Collection Basket or mail it to the Parish Office.  Thank you. Thursday, Covid19 BereavementSupport Group   Name: ______ Group is a safe space to share & seek support. Members offer a  Address: ______ caring, nonjudgmental presence as normal grief reactions &  emotions are explored. The Group experience provides City/Zip: ______  comforton your grief journey towardshope & healing. Telephone: ______   An intake interview is a prerequisite to attend Group. For more ____ Please send me a New Parishioner’s Packet information, contact Gae Savino, LCSW, CT at (914) 3915966 ____ Change of Address/Telephone Number or [email protected]. All faiths welcome. Individuals over 21+ ____ Moving, please remove our name from the Parish List. are invited. No fees to attend.  Pre-Arrangement Services Family Owned & Operated Burials and Cremations George R. Camp Grief Support Services Dorsey Owner & Licensed Manager 14 Emwilton Place Ossining Funeral Home, Inc. 941-0167

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