SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME MEMORIALS The Sanctuary Candle this week is burning in loving Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will. memory of the deceased members of the Immorlica and January 14, 2018 Rizzo families donated by Peter and Teresa Hardin. The candle will burn from January 14th through January 20th. CHOIR REHEARSALS Adult Choir rehearsals are held on Wednesday evenings at 7:30 pm in the choir loft. New members are welcome at all weekend Masses. If you would like to sing, please come to a rehearsal or call Jeffrey V. Lutz at 228-5612. GRAYMOOR PRAYER GROUP Increase your time in prayer. The Graymoor Prayer Group, following the Medjugorje prayer format, meets Thursday evenings, 7:30 to 8:30 pm at the Spiritual Life Building 6th floor Chapel. Prayer facilitator – Diana Roda: 424-4175. INTERCESSORY PRAYERLINE Call in your intercessions • Marian Shrine (Divine Mercy) Stockbridge • 800-804-3823 PLEASE PRAY For the sick and suffering, especially Lucy Abbatine Todd Morris Lucas Boesch Joseph Nowakowski Electra Bokanoski Brian O’Keeffe Nicole Bokanoski Inelda O’Keeffe [Andrew] first found his own brother Simon and told him, Robert Broughal Luis Padilla "We have found the Messiah" – which is translated Christ. The Brusco Family Rosario Padilla John 1:41 Kathleen Clements Neilan Pierce Christopher Hartly Vivian Pisanelli ANNOUNCED MASSES Joseph Hoda Joan Rosado If you wish to bring up the gifts for a Mass being said for Parker Jane Holloway Phillip Rossignol your loved one(s), please see the Usher before Mass. Joey Hyatt, Jr. Melissa Castro-Santos Elizabeth M. Hynes Miguel Santos Vigil (Sunday) Mass – January 13 Kaitlyn Jandrucko Sally Singh 5:00 PM Mary Dillon – 12th Anniversary Dennis Klubnick Ralph Torres Sunday, January 14 – Second Sunday in Ordinary Geoff Lyons Connie Tuomey Time Kathleen Manganello Chris Ventura 8:30 AM Billy Flaherty Mary Marion Frank Volkmann 10:15 AM St. Joseph’s – All the People of the Parish Paula Martino Lidia Watrud 12:00 PM James Early – 37th Anniversary Merna Mendelson Monday, January 15 – Weekday and for all our dearly departed, especially 8:15 AM Helen and Phil Dailey Gloria Varricchio Tuesday, January 16 – Weekday 8:15 AM Gus Lemmo that the fighting among nations cease, that vengeance Wednesday, January 17 – Saint Anthony, Abbot end and lasting peace begin, and for all of our prayers in 8:15 AM All the People of the Parish our book of petitions. Thursday, January 18 – Weekday 8:15 AM Kevin Moroney READINGS FOR THIS WEEK Friday, January 19 – Weekday Monday: 1 Sm 15:16-23; Ps 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21, 23; 8:15 AM Alex Dengler – 1st Anniversary Mk 2:18-22 Saturday, January 20 – Saint Fabian, Pope and Martyr, Tuesday: 1 Sm 16:1-13; Ps 89:20-22, 27-28; Mk Saint Sebastian, Martyr 2:23-28 8:15 AM Jerome Allen Wednesday: 1 Sm 17:32-33, 37, 40-51; Ps 144:1b, 2, 9-10; Mk 3:1-6 Vigil (Sunday) Mass – January 20 Thursday: 1 Sm 18:6-9; 19:1-7; Ps 56:2-3, 9-13; Mk 5:00 PM Marie Chicarella – 9th Anniversary 3:7-12 Sunday, January 21 – Third Sunday in Ordinary Time; Friday: 1 Sm 24:3-21; Ps 57:2-4, 6, 11; Mk 3:13-19 Ecumenical Sunday Saturday: 2 Sm 1:1-4, 11-12, 19, 23-27; Ps 80:2-3, 8:30 AM Lila Quintanilla 5-7; Mk 3:20-21 10:15 AM St. Joseph’s – Laura B. Schiele Sunday: Jon 3:1-5, 10; Ps 25:4-9; 1 Cor 7:29-31; Mk 12:00 PM Josephine Merante 1:14-20 WEEKEND OF JANUARY 7, 2018 OUR LADY OF LORETTO PARISH REGULAR WEEKLY COLLECTION – $7,590 RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CATHOLIC COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGN AND “Handing on the Faith” CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA – $5,832 845-265-3718 ✭ [email protected] Thank you for your generosity. CLASSES THIS WEEK MASS ATTENDANCE Wednesday, January 17th, 2018 Adults Children Total Grade 1 – 3:30 to 4:30 pm Grades 2 to 5 – 3:30 to 5:00 pm Saturday, 5:00 pm 92 9 101 Grades 6 to 8 – 6:30 to 8:00 pm

Sunday, 8:30 am 67 26 93 Classes will not be held on Wednesday, St. Joseph’s Chapel January 24th. Sunday, 10:15 am 33 4 37 5TH GRADE FAMILY MASS Sunday, 12:00 pm 126 22 148 Sunday, January 21st • 8:30 am Mass in the Church Total 318 61 379

COME & DISCERN VOCATION WEEKEND WITH FRANCISCAN FRIARS Do you feel like God may be calling you to religious life? Join the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement February 16-19, 2018 for a prayerful discernment experience at our Friary (“Graymoor”) in Garrison, NY. The Franciscan Friars of the Atonement are dedicated to a mission of bringing about reconciliation, healing and unity in our world. Besides getting to know the life and ministry of the Friars, the long weekend will focus on teaching practical discernment tools for hearing God’s will for your life. For more information: visit www.AtonementFriars.org/discern Or contact the Director of Discernment Ministry: EUCHARISTIC ADORATION Paul Krenzelok, 845-424-2122, [email protected]. At Our Lady of Loretto • Every Monday • 7:00-8:00 pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament remains as it is with individual prayer time, but specific groups are being identified for certain Mondays so they can come together to focus in prayer for a specific intention... Jan 15 – The elderly and grandparents Jan 22 – Employees and volunteers of the Parish Jan 29 – Judicial professionals KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Feb 5 – The unborn and persecuted Christians Loretto Council #536 Philipstown Food Pantry Delivery Sunday • January 28th PRAY FOR LEADERS “I ask you this favor: every one of you take five minutes, The Knights of Columbus will be collecting food and no more. If you are a leader, ask yourself: ‘Do I pray to other items, including diapers, toothbrushes, toothpaste, the One who gave me power through the people?’“ soap, shampoo, cleaners and paper towels, for the Philipstown Food Pantry the weekend of January “If you are not a leader,” he said, “‘Do I pray for my 27th and 28th. leaders? Yes, for this one and that one, yes, because I Please leave donations in the cry room during that like them; but for that one, no.’” weekend. Thank you for your generosity! “They need it so much more for this reason! ‘Do I pray Grand Knight – Bob Murphy for all leaders?’ And if you find in your examination of To join, email our Membership Director, John Hackney: conscience before Confession that you have not prayed for your leaders, bring it to Confession. Because not to [email protected]. pray for leaders is a sin.” Information can also be found at KofC536.com. – Pope Francis, September 2017 WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY Prayer "Be faithful to the time spent in prayer and make sure that January 18th-25th, 2018 at least half of your prayer is spent in silence. This will Your Right Hand, O Lord, Glorious in Power bring you closer to Jesus. If you deepen your prayer life January 18th through 25th, 2018 is the annual you will grow in holiness and obtain many graces for the observance of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. souls entrusted to your care. The theme chosen for 2018 is “Your Right Hand, O Lord, Glorious in Power” (Exodus 15:6). Throughout 2018, join Deepen your love for one another by praying for each Christians everywhere in praying “that they may all be other and by sharing thoughts and graces you have one” joining our prayer with that of the Lord Jesus received in prayer and reading." Christ. For more information go to: www.geii.org Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta Prayer O God, your right hand is glorious in power. Extend REGIONAL CATHOLIC ELEMENTARY your hand to help us discover new ways that unite SCHOOLS your people in the Body of Christ, the Church. 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Rather line 646-794-2885. than condemning Judas, he called him his friend.” We look forward to welcoming your family to ours! – Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta NICHOLAS BLACK ELK: THIS SIOUX expelled him. This jarring incident, his daughter recalled, MEDICINE MAN MAY BE RECOGNIZED AS A was like St. Paul “falling off a horse.” Sensing that the priest’s healing powers were greater than his, Black Elk SAINT took religious instruction and on December 6th, the Feast After his conversion, the Lakota medicine man told a of St. Nicholas, he was baptized Nicholas. friend, "I want to be a catechist the rest of my life." In some ways, converting wasn’t that much of a stretch. Lakota spirituality sees the world as a sacred place charged with spiritual forces, not unlike the Catholic sacramental worldview. Both have a communitarian focus, another important factor that eased Black Elk’s conversion. While he didn’t abandon the traditional Lakota worldview, he did resituate it within the context of his Catholic faith. He also discovered a new calling. He told a friend: “I want to be a catechist the rest of my life.” Before the arrival of Native clergy, catechists held the local Catholic community together. In the absence of a priest, they led prayers, and they read and explained scripture. They visited the sick, sometimes they baptized, and they led burial services. Aleteia.org, by Patrick McNamara, PhD – At the 2017 They instructed both adults and children. One Jesuit said General Assembly of the United States Conference of they “do more good than many a priest.” Catholic Bishops, American bishops unanimously approved pursuing the cause for canonization of Nicholas It wasn’t easy work. The priests could be demanding, William Black Elk, Sr. some of his people rejected him, and he was frequently penniless, having given away his money. But the Jesuits In his book Black Elk Speaks, author John Neihardt came to depend on him greatly. By the time of Black Elk’s interviewed a Lakota holy man who recounted pre- death in 1950, it was estimated that he participated in the reservation life and events he witnessed, including conversion of over 400 people, and was godfather to over Custer’s Last Stand and the Wounded Knee massacre. a hundred. A peer said, “When he got up he really Later, anthropologist Joseph Epes Brown interviewed preached. People sat there and just listened to him.” One Black Elk about Lakota religious traditions for his book priest called him a “a second St. Paul.” The Sacred Pipe (1953). Both works are touched with a certain sadness, that of a man whose best days have In the best of times, reservation life could be difficult, passed. Together they introduced millions to the richness poverty and alcoholism being major problems. One of Native American traditions. historian notes that opposition to the use of alcohol was a trademark of Lakota Catholic life. Members of the St. But Black Elk’s prestige among his own people had little to Joseph’s Society, a Catholic men’s group on the do with these books. It was based more on his ministry as reservations, abstained from drink. At the Sioux Catholic a Catholic catechist on South Dakota reservations. A Congresses, a gathering of Catholics from all the convert to Catholicism, for nearly 50 years he helped reservations, temperance societies were founded and prepared people for Baptism, led prayer meetings, pledges made. organized events for Native American Catholics, and worked as a lay missionary to the Lakota (also called In the summer of 1930, Nick (as he was known) received Sioux). a visit from John Neihardt, a poet and author who interviewed him for a book he was writing. The resulting A member of the Oglala branch of the Lakota Sioux, Black work, which took Black Elk’s life up to Wounded Knee in Elk was born around 1865 on the Little Powder River in 1890, became the best-read book on Native American life. what is now Wyoming. As a child, he told Neihardt: But as his latest biographer Michael Steltenkamp aptly comments, the last “sixty years of the man’s life are We roamed the country freely, and this country unaccounted for.” belonged to us in the first place. There was plenty of game and we were never hungry. But since the white Black Elk himself felt that Neihardt painted an incomplete man came we were fighting all the time. portrait. He was, he wrote in 1934, “different from what the white man wrote about me. I am a Christian.” He noted A second cousin of the great war chief Crazy Horse, as a that he had asked Neihardt to write something about his teen Black Elk was at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But the work as a Catholic, but was ignored. As a story of his life, defining moment in his life occurred earlier at age 9, when he considered the book “null and void.” he experienced a vision that defined his future. He would be a medicine man. His vocation was to heal, spiritually Some assume that Black Elk’s conversion was an act of and physically. accommodation to the white man’s world. It was actually where he found true freedom and fulfillment. From He continued his healing work, but slowly was moving childhood, he saw healing as his vocation. As a catechist, toward Catholicism. His first wife was Catholic and so he helped heal a community wounded by poverty and were their children. In 1904, then a widower, he had a alcoholism. “Those of us who are … suffering,” he once unique conversion experience. He was visiting a sick child said, “should help one another and have pity.” Nicholas when an arriving blackrobe (a Catholic priest) forcibly Black Elk remained true to his vision long into old age.