Born: Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, August 26, 1910 Died: September 5, 1997 The Parish of Canonized: September 4, 2016 SAINT MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Sacred Heart Saint Francis Founded 1912 Founded 1909

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January 24, 2021 Mass Schedule Mass Schedule Saturday ------5:30 pm Saturday ------4:00 pm Sunday ------10:00 am & 12:00 noon Sunday ------8:30 am & 1:30 pm (Spanish) Monday-Saturday ------9:00 am Monday-Friday ----7:00 am (Communion Service) & 12:00 noon Confessions Saturday ------4:30 - 5:15 pm Confessions Saturday ------3:00 - 3:45 pm Holy Days ------As announced

Parish Staff Baptisms

Rev. William Damroth, Pastor Bapsms are celebrated twice a month. Rev. John Antony, Parochial Vicar Please arrange for the obligatory preparaon Msgr. Peter Tran Van Phat, Rered session by calling the Rectory. Lawrence Kawula, Deacon Peter R.C. Haight, Deacon Marriage Deacon John Hanley, Engaged couples should contact the Rectory Jack Seymour, Deacon  Rest in Peace  Sister Alba Danese, FMI, Pastoral Assistant at least six months in advance. Diocesan Sister Anna Sasso, FMI, Pastoral Assistant regulaons require a marriage preparaon Sister Laura Urbano, PBVM, Pastoral Assistant program for all couples. Padre’s Corner (Reprinted from July 19, 2020) January 24, 2021 Third Sunday In Ordinary Time

Saints Who Were Criminals or Convicts Found Christ Anyway Aleteia / Meg Hunter-Kilmer / June 20, 2020

“These holy men and women remind us never to discredit someone with the idea: “Well, he’s no saint.” It’s common, when trying to discredit a person with a complicated past, to say, “Well, he’s no saint,” as though anyone with a rap sheet is ineligible for canonization. The testimony of the saints indicates the opposite, though – any number of saints were terrible sinner and many were even convicted criminals. Their lives would have mattered whether or not they had ultimately attained holiness. But when we’re inclined to dismiss somebody as a lost cause or to deny him justice or dignity because of past crimes, we would do well to remember the saints who spent time in jail, asking their intercession that we would see not criminal records but beloved children of the Father worthy of life and respect. Pope St. Callistus I (d. 222) was a young Christian slave who was given charge of funds deposited in his master’s bank. Through mismanagement (and possibly embezzlement), Callistus lost his money, much of which belonged to Christian widows who were now destitute. Realizing the fate that awaited him, Callistus fled Rome but was pursued and captured by his master, who sent to do hard labor. When Callistus tried to recover the lost funds by berating Jewish money lenders who were at prayer, he started a fight in the synagogue and was arrested and sent to the salt mines. Amnesty was granted to Christian prisoners and Callistus returned to Rome, where his deep conversion ultimately led his selection as the 16th pope, in which office he served for five years before he was martyred. St. Mukasa Kiriwawanuv (1863-1886) was a page working for the king of Buganda. He was a long- legged young man who was evidently rather sensitive about his height; when 15-year old St. Gyaviira, another of the pages, teased him with the nickname “Long Legs,” Kiriwawanvu lost his temper and hit the smaller boy. A favorite of the King, Gaviira tattled and got Kiriwawanvu was thrown in prison for assault. There Kiriwawanvu stayed as the king became more and more suspicious of the Christians at court. When he put them all in prison, St. Charles Lwanga baptized the catechumens in his cell, but Kiriwawanvu was being held separately; he never received baptism of water, but was freed from his cell to receive the baptism of blood, killed alongside the young man who was the cause of his initial imprisonment. St. Raphael Kalinowski (1835-1907) was a Polish engineer in the Russian army before becoming a traitor during the January Uprising. Kalinowski became minister of war for the Poles; this significant role meant that he would suffer much when the Polish cause was destroyed. Initially sentenced to death, Kalinowski was sent to Siberia instead, where he worked in the salt mines for 10 years, a prisoner nor for his faith but for treason. But those 10 years of hard labor served as a sort of novitiate for the young man, who had been a lapsed Catholic until only a few years prior. After his release, Kalinowski became a Carmelite priest, in which role he served for 25 years. Servant of God Jacques Fesch (1930-1957) was a wealthy French atheist who got his girlfriend pregnant, was made to marry her, then left her and their daughter for another woman, with whom he had a son. Finding neither joy nor peace in his life of dissipation, he decided to buy a boat and escape, but his father refused him the necessary funds. His mind made up, Fesch decided to rob a moneychanger; when he was pursued, he shot and killed a police officer. He was arrested and condemned to death, but during his three years on death row he went from ridiculing the Catholic faith to weeping over his sins, begging his wife to forgive him, and looking forward to his execution as the day he would meet Jesus. The diary he kept after his conversion shows a heart passionately in love with the Lord. CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 SACRED HEART SECOND COLLECTION SAINT FRANCIS BUILDING MAINTENANCE & REPAIR Monday, January 25 Sacred Heart-St Francis Weekly Collection Monday, January 25 9:00am Charles Gioia January 16 7 17 & 10, 2021 7:00am Communion Service By Family 1st Collection $9,638 2nd Collection $1,948 12:00pm Charlie Messina TOTAL $11,586 By Parish Family William & Barbara Damroth By Parish Family Tuesday, January 26 Tuesday, January 26 9:00am Beaulah Politi 7:00am Communion Service By Carmella & David Rupp 12:00pm Frances Schaffner By Family

Wednesday, January 27 Wednesday, January 27 9:00am Doug McCauley Sacred Heart Mass Attendance 7:00am Communion Service By Wife Jeannine January 16 & 17, 2021 5:30 60 12:00pm Charlie Messina 10:00 103 By Parish Family 12:00 83 William & Barbara Damroth TOTAL 246 By Parish Family Thursday, January 28 Thursday, January 28 9:00am Ronald Landi 7:00am Communion Service By Cindy & Craig Kretzmer 12:00pm Gloria Lent By Parish Family

Friday, January 29 Saint Francis Mass Attendance Friday, January 29 9:00am Our Parish Family January 16 & 17, 2021 7:00am Communion Service By 4:00 106 8:30 95 12:00pm Julia Grieco (6yrs in Heaven) 1:30 83 By Family TOTAL 284 Saturday, January 30 Saturday, January 30 9:00am Joan Roerden Mass Intentions for This Weekend 4:00pm Bruce Finch By The Walker Family January 23 & 24, 2021 Sacred Heart By The Formato Family

5:30pm Janet Buttafuoco 5:30pm Robert Cariffe By Maria & Bill O’Boy & Family Elizabeth Moore

10:00am Bob Fisher

12:00pm Rosaria Liardi & Luigi Liardi & Maria Truzzolino from Italy Sunday, January 31 Sunday, January 31 10:00am Robert Fisher Mass Intentions for This Weekend 8:30am Our Parish Family By The Counting Crew January 23 & 24, 2021 Saint Francis By

12 noon Joann Lockwood 4:00pm Eleanor Murphy By Orfeo Cicchetti Edith Moriello

8:30am Dewey Dennis TODAY Fellow Parishioners – with the cold and flu season, THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME as well as coronavirus hitting all at the same time, First Reading: Jonah 3:1-5, 10 it is imperative that we wear a facial mask while Jonah set out for Nineveh as God asked and told the attending both daily mass and the Sunday Liturgy. people that their city would be destroyed in forty days. The CDC has stressed the importance of wearing The people believed him and repented from their evil masks to curb the spread of the virus. Remember ways. God did not destroy their city, showing his mercy for those who see the evil of their ways and the mask is to cover your face and not be pulled correct it. down on your chin and bring hand sanitizer for Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 your own personal use. Please let’s work together Paul advises the Corinthians that their world is to keep one another safe during these uncertain changing, so they should not take their daily trials too times. Thank you for your cooperation in this seriously. We should remember that the problems of matter and God Bless us all. everyday living will not last forever, but the eternal life God promises us will. Gospel: Mark 1:14-20 WEEKLY OFFERINGS Jesus observes Simon and Andrew where they are You may continue to mail your weekly envelopes to fishing and tells them to come with him and become Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta Church, 301 Ann “fishers of men.” They abandon their nets without Street, Newburgh, NY 12550 or drop them off in hesitation to follow him. Next he calls James and his the mailbox located outside the rectory door on brother John, who also leave what they are doing and follow him without question. the Ann Street side. You can also sign up for the online giving program by clicking on these links: Monday Acts 22:3-16 or Acts 9:1-22; Mk 16:15-18 https://stfrancisnewburgh.churchgiving.com/ Tuesday https://sacredheartnewburgh.churchgiving.com/ 2 Tim 1:1-8 or Ti 1:1-5; Mk 3:31-35 Wednesday Heb 10:11-18; Mk 4:1-20 Thursday Heb 10:19-25; Mk 4:21-25 Friday Heb 10:32-39; Mk 4:26-34 Saturday A heartfelt thank you for Heb 11:1-2, 8-19; Mk 4:35-41 your continued support and generosity to our parish during this unprecedented time. May God continue to bless each and every one of you. All Masses are being held in the Main church Our Mass Schedule Remains The Same:

Daily Mass: 9:00am - Sacred Heart – Monday-Saturday 12 noon – Saint Francis – Monday-Friday

Weekend Mass: Saturday (vigil) 4:00pm –Saint Francis 5:30pm – Sacred Heart BLESSING OF THE THROATS Confession 3:00pm-3:45pm – Saint Francis For the Feast of St. Blaise, Blessing of the Throats will 4:30-5:15pm Sacred Heart take place on Wedensday, February 3, 2021 at both Sunday 8:30 am - Saint Francis churches and the weekend of Febuary 6th and 7th at all 10:00am – Sacred Heart masses. 12 noon – Sacred Heart 1:30pm (Spanish) – Saint Francis Pope Francis’s Prayer to Mary During Coronavirus Pandemic SACRED HEART DONATIONS FOR MARY’S HOPE - We are very much in need of Cereal, Hamburger Helper, O Mary, you always shine on our path as a sign of Rice-A-Roni, Canned Vegetables and Fruit, Spaghetti & salvation and of hope. We entrust ourselves to you, Sauce, Tuna, Complete Pancake Mix & Syrup, Mashed Health of the Sick, who at the cross took part in Jesus’ Potatoes in a box, Rice in 1lb packages, Gravy, Stuffing, pain, keeping your faith firm. Pasta in a can, Baked Beans, Tomato and Chicken Noodle soup. We also need plastic bags (yellow or You, Salvation of Your People, know what we need, and white) and paper bags with handles. Please note: we we are sure you will provide so that, as in Cana of cannot give out expired food to our clients. Please Galilee, we may return to you and to feasting after this bring donations to Sacred Heart church. Thank you for time of trial. your continued generosity.

Help us, Mother of Divine Love, to conform to the will of the Father and to do as we are told by Jesus, who has taken upon himself our sufferings and carried our sorrows to lead us, through the cross, to the joy of the resurrection. Amen. PRAYERS FOR THE SICK Deacon Peter Haight, Vincenza Secor, Aaron Stagliano, Under your protection, we seek refuge, Holy Mother of Maureen Kelly, Anne McClellan, Donnie Ruckdeschel, God. Do not disdain the entreaties of we who are in Bobbi Hull, Jim Formato, Paul Neugebauer, Catherine trial, but deliver us from every danger, O glorious and Fossella, Julia Vecchio, Gloria Presutti, Beulah Politi, blessed Virgin. Amen. Tom Marino, Maverick Coolidge, Barbara Wolyzyn, Mary Michele Lease, Eliana Rose Mary Valenti, David Vandermast, George Quintyne, Carol Brown, Ariana Cruz, Rina Bozzone, Jaddon Johnson, Eileen Burke, Ken Masten, John Marullo, Joann Fayo-Perry, Kathleen Bachman, Mike Fitzgerald, Samuel Cerone, Jr, Frances Marino, Jean Mendoza, Michelle Ryan, Jamel Issa, Patricia Rifenburgh, April Carlyon, Margaret Juliano, Erin Garvey, George Sarvis, Guiseppe Gagliardo,Teresa Centeno, Cindy Cerone, Rebecca Pacella, Janie Favoino, Bea Gruini, Carol Bourdage, Sharon Mendoza- Lindenauer, Barbara Colurciello, Joyce Diaz, Peyton Flaig, Maurena Luzzi, Mary Leoce, Arlene Sheridan, John Please remember the following members Raszcewski, Giovanna Garrison, Jessica Pearson, Marie of the armed service in your prayers. Cronin, Austin Galvin, Adele Esposito, Joe Coyle, Ramon US Marines, Sgt. C.J. Kozlik - US Army Piniero, John Horos, Erica Bush, John Bush, Jeff Beck, LCDR Thomas O. Mennerich – USN, LCDR Abby K. Karen Hanley, Richard Messina, Thomas Krauss, John Mennerich Lorfeld – USN, Keith O’Connor - US Army, Horos, Matthew Campora, Bernadette Chick, Kim Nicholos M. Pisani - US Navy Geisinger, Sharon Formato, Henry Sawoska, Timothy Capt. Bryan Malone - US Army, Airman Matthew Cook - Hale, Edward Lastowski Sr., Mary Irons, John Tumminia, Air Force, PFC.Cory Ray Kretzmer - US Army Edward Brian, Kiernan Widmark, Marie Napoliello Louis, Sgt Vincent Thurston - US Marines, Pvt Francis Thurston Sue & Tony Beck, Chris Bush, Bethany Bush, Kayla Bush, - US Marines, E2 Thomas Pacenza III - USAF Vic Landi, Barbara Peluso, Doug Pedrick, Julia Profaci, Pvt. Haley Pacenza - US Army, Airman Samantha Trappe Charlie Messina - Air Nat’l Guard, S/Sgt Grant Drumgold - Air Force M/Sgt Theresa Castellane - Air Force, SPC Patrick Please call the rectory (561-2264) to add / delete D.Ortland - US Army, PFC David Recine Jr. - US Army names from this list PFC Matthew F. Lease USMC, Capt Matthew Stark, Army, Jonathan Stagliano – Master at Arms Navy. If you know of someone deployed overseas,please let us know. PADRE’S CORNER CONTINUED....

Servant of God Dorothy Day (1897-1980) is famous for her political activism and direct service to the poor. Her work was fueled by her relationship with Jesus, but her Deacon Jack Seymour Food Pantry Hours: activism predated her conversion to Catholicism. As a Saturday 8:30am to 12noon young communist, Day was arrested during a Located at Sacred Heart School Gym demonstration seeking the vote for women. After her 240 So. Robinson Avenue, Newburgh, NY conversion, she was arrested multiple times for civil disobedience. While we look back on these arrests with In your goodness please bring ONE POUND PACKAGES respect, many of Day’s contemporaries considered her OF PASTA & SAUCE to Church next weekend to be dangerous and defiant, a rabble-rouser and a closeted distributed to the less fortunate in our area. If communist. something is on sale and of good value, please feel free to donate that as well. B1. David Galvan Bermudez (1881-1915) entered If your child needs volunteer hours, the Food Pantry will seminary in Mexico at only 14, but a vocational crisis led coordinate service hours, however, you must pre- him to leave the seminary and the pursuit of register with Curt Bourdage at 845-863-6504. holiness. He fell into a dissipated way of life and was frequently drunk; on one such occasion, he was arrested for assault, having hit his girlfriend for dancing EGYPT AND THE GREAT NILE CRUISE with another man. He later repented and returned to November 8 – 18, 2021 the seminary. After his ordination, Fr. Galvan chose to Hosted by Father Bill....Cairo, Luxor, Edfu, Kom Ombo, risk his life serving wounded Catholics during the Aswan, Memphis, Sakkara. $3,499 per person Cristero War. He was caught and martyred.” For more information, see brochures in back of St. Francis Church or at the rectory at Sacred Heart. PONDERINGS FROM FATHER BILL Jesus had to deal with a crowd of worshippers, typicality the chief priests and Pharisee scribes of His time, that WE WELCOME YOU TO BECOME A MEMBER OF OUR adopted a “holier- than- thou“ attitude toward others PARISH FAMILY that basically became an unhealthy mechanism of control. A long time ago I heard of a deacon in a parish ____ YES! I want to register as a member and receive far away who had such control over immigrants through offertory envelopes for: the church position, plus civic jobs that helped them get ____ Sacred Heart Church _____ St Francis Church documented and jobs. Too much power in one person, akin to what Jesus often experienced. The saints Name: described above all struggled with weaknesses and painful memories, as we all do, that humbled them in a Address: better way to both serve God and bring the authentic faith to their parishioners. That is our common City/Town: Zip: vocational call, and builds a stronger road of spiritual participation in a world of virus and protest. Fr. Bill Home Phone:

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