Office Hours

Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. 631-369-1273 Fax 631-369-7141 www.saintspeterandpaul.org

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Vision Statement

We are church...co-creators with the Holy Spirit, building the city of God and renewing the earth.

Mission Statement

“This is what the Lord God asks of you: only this, to act justly, to love tenderly, and to walk humbly with your God.” ( 6:8b)

Pastoral Team

 Rev. Jose , SMM — Pastor [email protected]  Carol Kaczmarek — Pastoral Assistant [email protected]  Christina Koch— Bookkeeper [email protected] Graziano — Parish Social Ministry Coordinator [email protected]  Vincent Palminteri — Director of Religious Education [email protected]  Patricia Fiene — Faith Formation Secretary [email protected]  Connie Trivelli — Youth Minister 516-662-9960  Karenann Knotoff — Parish Secretary [email protected]  Fr. Francis Pizzarelli, SMM — Weekend Assistant

Pastoral Council Finance Committee Liturgy Committee

Shirley Castellano Shirley Castellano (Trustee) Carol Kaczmarek Deb Himmelmann Fred Koelbel (Trustee) Susan Barrasso Fred Koelbel Eugene Agbimson Stephan Borkowski Andy McCall Cathy Fasanelli Ann Carlsen John Tanner Christina Koch Terri Donahue Carol Kaczmarek Douglas Lake Maureen Ferris Ellen Shore Deb Himmelmann John Leonardis Deb Mazura John McNally Parish Outreach (631) 369-7142 Jill Meise

[email protected] Tom St. Pierre Vincent Sweeney Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. William Hurley Food Pantry Hours: Thursday 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Chris Anest Suzanne McConnell Frank Dautzenberg

Sts. Peter & Paul RC Church

Weekly Schedule at Sts. Peter and Paul MASS SCHEDULE

Saturday Vigil Mass 5:00 p.m. Sunday, March 15th, 2020 To March 22nd, 2020 Sunday, 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. Sunday Keys of the Kingdom WE CELEBRATE During Lent, Please call Connie For times and location

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at 9:00 a.m. Monday Knights of Columbus 8:00 p.m. WE CELEBRATE BAPTISM Anne Room

3rd Sunday of the Month Tuesday Please contact the Rectory at least six weeks in advance to make arrangements. Baptism Preparation Classes are required. Wednesday Alanon 7:00 p.m. WE CELEBRATE MARRIAGE Basement

Marriage arrangements should be made at least one year in Thursday Boys Scouts advance. 7:00 p.m. Basement WE CELEBRATE RECONCILIATION Friday Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Following the 9:00 a.m. Mass until Saturday from 3:45 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. or by Appointment. 8:00 p.m.

ANOINTING OF THE SICK Saturday Gifts from Bethlehem Handcrafted Olive Wood If you are suffering from an illness or having major surgery, please After Mass call for an appointment for Fr. Jose to visit you and administer the Sacrament of the Sick. Sunday Gifts from Bethlehem Handcrafted Olive COMMUNION FOR THE Wood HOMEBOUND After all Mass

Do you know someone who is sick, in the hospital, or homebound Keys of the Kingdom and would like to receive Holy Communion? Please call the During Lent, Please call Connie Rectory for assistance. For times and location

ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament will take place on Fridays, Keys of the Kingdom Youth Group! following the 9:00 a.m. Mass until 8:00 p.m. The Chapel is Lent is the time of the year that we practice for the always open for silent prayer. . With rehearsals at different times, please call me to verify our schedule. Connie 516-662-9960

Saint Vincent de Paul The St. Vincent de Paul monthly meeting has been rescheduled to March 24th at 7:00 p.m. in the Conference Room.

Enhancing Stewardship through Just a Reminder … Electronic Funds Transfer To get started log on to: There will be no 9:00 a.m. Daily Morning www.saintspeterandpaul.org Mass if there is a storm and the school district and click on the Parish Giving Logo. is closed or on a two hour delayed opening.

This applies to Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament as well.

March 15th, 2020

WEEKLY SCRIPTURE READING Mass Intentions for March 10th, 2020 through March 15th, 2020 Third Sunday of Lent Tuesday, March 17th, 2020 03-15 Third Sunday of Lent 9:00 AM Siobhan Sena Family Tree Ex 17:3-7/Rom 5:1-2, 5-8

Jn 4:5-42 or 4:5-15, 19b-26, 39a, 40-42

03-16 Lenten Weekday Wednesday, March 18th, 2020 2 Kgs 5:1-15b 9:00 AM Special Intention Lk 4:24-30 (Carol Kaczmarek)

03-17 Lenten Weekday Thursday, March 19th, 2020 , Bishop 9:00 AM In Thanksgiving to the Dn 3:25, 34-43 Mt 18:21-35 Blessed Mother (Maria Segreto)

03-18 Lenten Weekday Saint Cyril of , Bishop and Doctor of the Friday, March 20th, 2020 Church 9:00 AM Dominic Macchia Dt 4:1, 5-9 (Maria and Tom Stubbolo)

Mt 5:17-19 Saturday, March 21st, 2020 03-19 Saint , Spouse of the Blessed Mary 5:00 PM Robert Lelle 2 Sm 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16 (The Koch Family) Rom 4:13, 16-18, 22 Mt 1:16, 18-21, 24a or Lk 2:41-51a Sunday, March 22nd, 2020

03-20 Lenten Weekday 9:00 AM Agbim and Family Hos 14:2-10 (The Zara Family) Mk 12:28-34 11:00 AM People of the Parish 03-21 Lenten Weekday Hos 6:1-6 Lk 18:9-14 7:00 PM Christopher Panzarella (The Vetack Family) Next Week’s Readings Fourth Sunday of Lent March 22nd, 2020 1 Sm 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a Eph 5:8-14

Jn 9:1-41 or 9:1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38

St. Vincent de Paul Tweet from Francis

#Lent is a great time to make space for the Word In today’s , Jesus says: “My food is to of God. It is time to turn off the TV and open the do the will of the one who sent me to finish his . It is a time to pull ourselves away from work.” cell phones and connect ourselves to the Gospel.

Through your almsgiving you are doing the will of the Father and finishing the work of Jesus. Know that your nickel, dime or quarter is multiplied by the coins placed by others in the St. Vincent de Paul Poor Box. Join us in praying the Rosary every Tuesday through Friday before Mass at 8:30 a.m. Our Lady Queen of Apostles Regional Catholic School 2 St. John’s Place Join us in praying the Center Moriches, 11934 Divine Mercy Chaplet every Wednesday 631-878-1033 following the 9:00 a.m. Mass

March 15th, 2020

Bulletin Reflection -

TIME, TALENT & TREASURE When Jesus asked the Samaritan woman for a drink of PARISH SACRIFICIAL water, He opened the door for a lifechanging relationship with Him. Scripture says her testimony drew many others GIVING to Him as well. The Samaritan woman left what she had March 8th, 2020 and told her people about Christ, whom she had just met. Stewardship - Pillar of Formation Thanks to the witness of the Samaritan woman, many Samari- tans from her town were able to meet Jesus. This week, be a witness to the Faith! Perhaps wear a cross, say grace before a Sunday Collection: $4,659.00 meal in public, or tell someone you will pray for them. You never know the impact your actions and words can have Parish Giving (electronic donations): $1,447.00 on someone’s life.

Children’s Envelopes: $ 205.67 Gifts from Bethlehem Total Collection for 03/08/2020 $6,311.67 Handcrafted olive wood designs from the Holy Land will be sold the weekend of March 21st and Total Collection 03/10/2019 $6,938.00 March 22nd after all Masses. These carvings are a major source of income for Total Collection OLQA $ 671.00 the families who work in this trade in Bethlehem. When you have a moment, check out their beautiful work on their website, www.bethlehemgifts.com. Total Collection OLQA 3/03/2019 $1,023.00

Sunday Mass Attendance Are You Sick?

Cold and flu season is here. If you are sick or feverish, etc. please, “Stay Home.” As adults, we should know it is wiser to stay home and get better than to come and spread your sickness to others. Please do not drink from the cup or shake hands if you are sick. Our thoughts and prayers go out to... Those Who Are Sick Garrett Vero Lynn Turnquist Bob Russell Jo Livote Frank Avolese Nicholas Sarubbi Chair Sale! Andy Henning Dominick Macchia Maureen Ferris Peter and Paul will be getting new chairs for *If you would like to add someone to the sick list, please the church and daily mass chapel. If anyone is inter- contact the office at 631-369-1273. ested in purchasing the used, pink chairs, they are being sold for $15.00 a chair. All chairs are stacka- Those Who Serve Our Country ble and attachable. If interested, please contact the office at Russell Candell Quentin Montemarano 631-369-1273. Jared Yevoli Sean Hendrickson Connor Hendrickson Jesse Trafford Eric Morgenstern A priest was making his way down a dark alley to his parked *If you would like to add someone to the military list, please car when a man thrust a revolver in his ribs and demanded, contact the office at 631-369-1273. “Hand me your wallet.” When the priest reached into his inside coat pocket for his wallet, the robber saw his clerical collar and exclaimed, “Are you a priest?” “Yes, I am,” the priest replied. “Oh, I’m a Catholic, too, and I don’t rob priests,” the robber said. Greatly relieved, the priest withdrew a cigar from his inside pocket and offered it to the penitent thief. “Oh, no! I can’t take that,” the thief exclaimed. “I’ve given up smoking for Lent.”

Sts. Peter & Paul RC Church

The Third Week of Lent Daily Prayer This Week

For the Third Sunday of Lent we read of the Samaritan wom- This is a pivotal week of Lent. We can solidify the patterns an who encounters Jesus at the well. He offers her lifegiving we have begun or we can make a new start, if we haven't waters and then shows her how intimately he understands her. been able to get started yet. If we have begun to recognize She runs back to town to spread her news: "Come and see a what needs realigning in our lives and have begun to fast man who told me everything I have ever done! Could he be the and abstain from some things that get in the way of our Messiah?" At some Masses, we will hear the Scrutinies for relationship with the Lord, then we are engaging in a strug- RCIA candidates. gle. We are likely uncovering resistance and experiencing our personal sinfulness face-to-face. This is all preparing us Thursday is the Solemnity of , husband of the for a deeper conversion, a readiness for reconciliation with Blessed Virgin Mary. God and the graces that will allow us to be a source of rec- onciliation with others. This is the time when we begin to see and experience how much God loves us at a new and Jesus challenges the people in his hometown of Nazareth to more personal level. These graces prepare us to keep our look at him in a new way - "No prophet is accepted in his own eyes focused on Jesus in the weeks ahead - to learn from native place." In a fury, they drive him out of the temple. Peter him, to fall in love with him more deeply and to be drawn asks Jesus the limits of forgiveness. Jesus say that we must to imitate him more completely. If we are just getting start- forgive again and again. He tells the parable about the servant, ed with our Lenten journey, renewing our desires for these who though forgiven himself, does not forgive his fellow serv- graces will be all we need to begin with a renewed open- ants. Jesus has come to fulfill the law and the words of the ness. God does not need a lot of time to convince us of his prophets, not abolish them. Jesus heals a demon that wouldn't love for us. let a man talk. When someone claimed that Jesus must be us- ing 's power to heal. Jesus responds with words that have a double meaning: there is only one source of grace; it is from This is a week about God's love for us and our call to love God and it resists evil; there is only one source of evil; it is others the same way. It is a time blessed by our gratitude from Satan and it resists God's grace. When asked to name the for the fidelity of Joseph and Mary, who responded to "greatest" commandment, Jesus names two, thus putting to- God's fidelity to them. It is a week to keep our daily focus gether the necessity of loving God with our entire being and loving our neighbor as our very selves. The week ends as Jesus on naming a desire each morning. The day ahead will shape tells a powerful story of the Pharisee and the tax collector what we ask for as our feet hit the floor in the morning. praying in the temple. I tell you, the latter went home justified, Pausing to thank the Lord for this day and to ask for the not the former; for everyone who exalts himself will be hum- grace to let our mind and heart be renewed in the concrete bled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” circumstances, relationships and obligations of our day. The Fourth Sunday of Lent brings the story of the man born Throughout the day, we can then return to those desires in blind. His disciples ask, “Who sinned, this man or his parents, background of our awareness. Our request for the Lord's that he was born blind?” Jesus heals the man who now sees help is always there and our consciousness of it, will help more clearly than the the true identity of Jesus. “I do believe, Lord.” us make the choice we desire to make, to let go of what we need to let go of, to add what we need to add. This will take http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/ us deeper and deeper into self-awareness and a sense of our online.html Used with permission.” need for a Savior, who is right there to embrace us and give us the graces we ask for. The Story of the Lenten Pretzel

Around the year 600 AD, a Catholic monk decided to make a special Mix together in a bowl, flour, 1/2 cup sugar and salt. Make a well treat for the children who learned to recite their prayers. Christians in in the center; add the oil and yeast mixture. those days prayed by folding their arms across their chests with each Mix and form into a dough. If dough is dry, add one or two more hand touching the opposite shoulder. This clever monk formed the tbsp water. Knead until smooth. Lightly oil a bowl, add dough and dough so that it would look like arms folded in prayer. He gave his turn to coat. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place. creation the name “prehola,” which in Latin means “little reward.” Around 1 hour.

Buttery Soft Pretzel Recipe Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Grease two baking sheets.

4 Tsp Active Yeast 1 tsp sugar Dissolve baking soda in 4 cups water; set aside. When risen, turn 1 1/4 cups Warm Water 5 Cups All Purpose Flour dough out onto a lightly floured surface and divide into 12 equal 1/2 cup White Sugar 1 1/2 tsp Salt pieces. Roll each piece into a rope and twist into a pretzel shape. 1 Tbsp Vegetable Oil 1/2 cup Baking Soda Once all of the dough is shaped, dip each pretzel into the baking 4 cups Hot Water 1/4 cup Kosher Salt soda hot water solution and place pretzels on baking sheets. Sprin- kle with kosher salt. In a small bowl, dissolve yeast and 1 tsp sugar in 1 1/4 cup warm water. Let stand for ten minutes. Bake in preheated oven until browned, about 8 minutes. www.allrecipe.com/Christa Rose

March 15th, 2020

Join us on April 3rd, at 7:30 p.m., following Soup for the Soul, as the Youth Group presents the Stations of the Cross. Live music and candlelight prayer.

For more information, please contact, Connie, Youth Minister at 516-662-9960.

Dear Friends:

As we journey through this Lenten season, the Lord Jesus calls us to devote ourselves to prayer, fasting and almsgiving.

Our Catholic Ministries Appeal offers us a practical way to respond to this Gospel call by making the mercy and love of Jesus manifest to all those in need. During Lent, we are challenged to put into practice the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. These works are the heart of the annual Appeal.

As Pope Francis tells us “Prayer brings us back to the path of truth about ourselves and about God; fasting makes us share the reality of so many people who face the anguish of hunger and makes us pay more attention to our neighbor; charity is a blessed occasion to col- laborate with God's providence in benefit of His children.”

Your generosity has enabled us to provide caring homes for people with disabilities, affordable housing to our low income seniors, and services to help people recover from addiction. We have supported married and family life; celebrated the sacramental life of the Church; ministered to those in prison; brought the healing power of Christ to those suffering from illness; spread the Gospel through efforts of evangelization, education and formation. These are just a few of the ways your contributions transform lives and spread dramatic mission- ary growth.

Today I invite you to join me in making a gift to this year’s Catholic Ministries Appeal, so that, as One Family In Mission, we can contin- ue to meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of others.

My prayers and best wishes to you and your family this Holy Season of Lent.

Sincerely in Christ,