BLESSED SACRAMENT PARISH February 24, 2019 Staten Island, New York 10310
Reverend Monsignor Peter G. Finn, Pastor Reverend Francisco Lanzaderas Reverend Roland Antony Raj, MMI Deacon Christopher Wodzinski
MASSES: Saturday in the Church: 5:00 PM (Vigil), Sunday 8:00, 9:30, 11:00 AM, 12:30 PM. Weekdays in the Church: 7:00 AM and 9:00 AM. Saturday in the Church: 9:00 AM. Holy Days in the Church: 7:00 PM (Vigil), 7:00, 9:00, 11:00 AM and 7:00 PM.
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday: 12:00 to 1:00 PM; 4:15 to 5:00 PM. Anytime upon reasonable request.
SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Sunday at 2:00 PM. (Except during July & August, then only on the First and Third Sunday and other specified days) Arrangements should be made at least one month in advance with the priest of the Parish. Parents of a first child and parents who are new to Blessed Sacrament must attend a Baptism Instruction Class which is held the second Tuesday evening of every month (except July and August) at 7:30 P.M. in the Parish House Meeting Room. Godparents should be Practicing Catholics, and must obtain a Sponsor Certificate from their Parish.
SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY Arrangements should be made about six months in advance, with a priest of the Parish. Couples must attend Pre- Cana Conferences.
SICK CALLS - At any time.
MIRACULOUS MEDAL NOVENA - Every Monday after the 9:00 AM Mass.
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION - First Friday from 12:00 Noon to 2:00 P.M.
NEW PARISHIONERS - Welcome to our Parish. We invite all parishioners to participate fully in our spiritual and social life. If you are new in the parish, please introduce yourself after Mass and register at the Parish House Office weekdays 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Kindly notify us if you change your address.
PARISH HOUSE 30 Manor Road 442-1581 http://www.blessedsacramentchurchsi.org
SCHOOL Mr. Joseph Cocozello Principal 830 Delafield Avenue 442-3090
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Sister Anne Dolores Van Wagenen, C.S.JB. - D.R.E. 830 Delafield Avenue 448-0378 PAGE TWO FEBRUARY 24, 2019 TITAN LEAGUE BREAKFAST CLUB
The Titan League Breakfast Club will meet on PRAY FOR THE SICK Thursday, Feb. 28th at 10:00am at the Dakota Diner. The sick are comforted just knowing that you pray for them In your charity please remember: Margaret Pittman-Boyle, Douglas Pfleging, Jr., Phyllis Ribaudo, Ann Socci, ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE Concetta Chicolo, Mary Kenny, Jean Carter, Jane Just a reminder that next Sunday, March 3rd is the Redmond, Carolyn DeStefano, Robert Tursi, Nicholas St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Toto, Marykate Rose, Peggy Travers, Mary Anne Blaine, Jean Cunningham, Jean Elmadary, Alan March, GOLDEN JUBILEE WEDDING MASS Sebastian Lattuga, Grayce Novaro, Angela Siuzdak, Helen Couples celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary Ramsey, Katherine Barbera, Margaret Romani, Br. William anytime during 2019 are invited to attend the Golden Herbst, Barbara Brown, Michael Caruso, Patricia Wedding Jubilee Mass with Cardinal Dolan at St. Connelly, Mary Belli, Mark Volpe, Linda Hansen, Marco Patrick’s Cathedral on Sunday, June 2nd at 2:00pm. Antonio Gonzalez, Larry Taylor, Jr., Kathy Quinlan, Katie Hanley, Jose Ruiz, Rosemary Callahan, Robert Pre-registration is required. Please contact your Hammerton, Catherine Vitale, Capala Lusi, Jack McGarry, parish to register. The closing date to register for the th Robert McQuade, Brian Nelson, Molly Cafaro, Maryann & Mass is Monday, May 13 at 5:00pm. Danny Brown, James McGarrigle, James Finnigan, Lelia Moran, Gail Kees, Cara Healy, Phyllis Morrell, Marion CARDINAL’S APPEAL Coolen, Michael Roskowinski, Barbara Braisted, Jeff Orr, The Cardinal’s Annual Stewardship Appeal has Debbie Caporale, Ana Ely Diaz, Ruth Orr, John G. served the people and parishes of our 10 counties for Ferriera, Gina King, Anna Scampas, Kaitlyn, Elinor 40 years. The health of our churches depends on all Walshe, Joan Callahan, Roy Yates, Joyce McDonough, Ed of us giving what we can. Even small sacrifices can Checkett, Eileen Doran, Lorrayne P., Lucille D’Arpe, make a big impact. Please answer the call and make Joanne Karundeny, Louis Raiola, Mike Mancuso, Lucinda Bieber, Marie Timlin, Patrick Stach, Arlene Pugh, Lorraine your commitment today. Esposito and Danna & George Cusick
GOLDEN CROSS FOR EDUCATION The pleasure of your company is requested at The Golden Cross for Education Award Breakfast, as we SYMPATHY honor individuals who have supported Staten Island Remember the souls for whom Mass will be offered during Catholic Schools. Sunday, March 24th, Doors open the week, especially: at 8am; Holy Sacrifice of the Mass at 8:30am and MONDAY Breakfast and Award Ceremony at 9:30am. The 7:00 William J. Moore Hilton Garden Inn, 1100 South Avenue. Tickets 9:00 Mary Patricia Peters before March 15th: Adults $45, Children under 12 TUESDAY $35. Journal ads from $125 to $250. Questions? 7:00 Genevieve Silk Please contact Diana Gatto at 9:00 Peter R. Palladino, Sr. [email protected] or 917-650-1171 WEDNESDAY 7:00 Elena Vitale
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BEFORE THE BLESSED SACRAMENT IN LOVING MEMORY OF MARIA GREAR PAGE THREE SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
SCHEDULE FOR MARCH 3, 2019 ALTAR SERVERS LECTORS EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS 5:00 PM Vigil Team 4 M. Semon K. Byrne & Sr. Anne 8:00 AM Team 5 F. Molanphy A. Coscia & A. Morrell 9:30 AM Team 1 L. Pillarella & L.Lambert J. Ryan & K. Ryan 11:00 AM Team 2 R. Helbock W. Boyd & M. McKeever 12:30 PM Team 3 M. Conigatti Mr. & Mrs. Boyle
BLESSED SACRAMENT FAMILY COOKBOOK FROM THE PASTOR Blessed Sacrament Family Cookbooks are on sale Phyllis Zagano is senior research associate in now! Featuring hundreds of treasured recipes from residence at Hofstra University in Hempstead, our School and Parish. Books are $10.00 and are NY. Her books include Women Deacons: available in the School and Parish office for Past, Present, Future and Women Deacons? purchase. Please mark envelopes “Blessed Essays and Answers. She is a strong Sacrament Family Cookbook and include your defender of the sacredness of human life and a name, phone number and quantity. Checks made payable to “Blessed Sacrament School.” faith filled Catholic woman.
DAY OF REFLECTION In her column entitled: Perspective, she writes Sponsored by Archdiocesan Union of the Holy Name Society-Richmond Div., March 9th at Our “They shoot horses, don’t they?” Lady Star of the Sea, 5371 Amboy Road. Spiritual First the1935 book. Then the 1969 movie. Leader: Pastor Thomas Devery. Begins with She cannot kill herself. He kills her, because Healing Mass at 9am; Breakfast and Lunch she asked him to. As he explains, “They shoot included, Spiritual Discussions and ends with horses, don’t they?” - giving the story its title. Sunday Vigil Mass at 4pm. Cost $25pp All are welcome to attend. Seats are limited - call Steve Is it assisted suicide? Or is it murder? Bilardi at 917-892-3017.
BLUE ARMY SHRINE To be sure, so-called medically assisted First Saturday, March 2th - Free Retreat at the Blue suicide is catching on. It’s legal in Belgium, Army Shrine, 674 Mt. View Road, East, Asbury NJ Canada, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and from 11:30am to 3:30pm - “Heart of Mary - Hope for Switzerland. In the United States, no federal the World, Uncovering the Fatima Message.” All law forbids it and six states circumnavigate welcome to the studio audience free retreat which their own laws by allowing “medical aid in will be filmed with Fr. Hugh Gillespie, SMM dying.” In these, people can overdose with presenting the final two talks in our Fatima series: prescribed drugs. At least 17 additional states Reparation for sinners and the charisma of St. have active pro-euthanasia movements. Jacinta, and Consecration to Mary as lived by Servant of God Sister Lucia. Rosary begins at That may be why The New York Times had a 11:30am; talks from 1:30pm - 3:30pm. Light front-page article about an American in refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to: [email protected] or 908-689-1700 X224. Canada who “wanted his last supper to be one he so often enjoyed on Friday nights when he “CHRIST BE MY LIGHT” was a young Catholic priest - rotisserie chicken Our Lady Queen of Peace is holding a Parish legs with gravy. Mission, Monday, March 4th to Wednesday, March 6th at 7:00p.m. Father Charles Coury, CSsR of the Really? He was a priest from 1965 to 1969, Redemptorist Order will preach. Schedule is as before the fasting laws changed. follows: Monday: reflection on the “Blessed Mother” in a way no one ever heard; Tuesday: No matter. In page after page, the newspaper “Conversion”; Wednesday: “Power of the Cross extols John Shields, whose “control over the over evil” and the healing it brings to people. A terms of his death made him feel empowered.” collection will be taken every evening and will be donated to the Redemptorist Missions. After all, the Times breathlessly reports, he PAGE FOUR “has packed five lifetimes of service into one:…civil rights activist, a social worker for children, the head of British Columbia’s biggest union and, most recently, the savior of a floundering land trust.”
The article is as seductive as it is congratulatory. Here is Shields, surrounded by friends as a physician administers the final doses; in 13 minutes, he is dead. Here is Shields, laid out under the swaying Douglas firs, birds chirping, candles flickering as friends recall his life. Here is Shields, on the front page of The New York Times, a propagandist’s dream come true.
A recent Gallup Poll found 68 percent of people in the United States think physician-assisted suicide is a good thing. In the days following the Shields piece, few letters appeared in the paper’s letters section warning that the polity think twice, maybe three times, before voting its support of the old Hemlock Society, no renamed Compassion & Choices. A total of 826 comments found their way to the Times online comments section, most brimming with words like “brave,” “amazing,” “moving” and “sensitive.” Only one person, from the Netherlands, wrote, “If this narrative becomes normative, be prepared that the whole way we will be dealing with illness, vulnerability, old age, and coping will be totally different 20 or 30 years from now.”
That is the problem with the assisted suicide movement, as it moves along its slimy trail from culture to culture, from country to country. Today, all sorts of legalities supposedly guard the individual. Typically, two doctors must assert the individual’s free choice and approve the killing. It all must be so neat and tidy.
Not long ago in Belgium, the lay board of the Brothers of Charity Group said it would allow euthanasia in its 15 psychiatric centers, which house more than 5,000 patients annually. In 2016, one of its centers was fined 6,000 Euros for preventing lethal injection of a patient. Over the objections of the Brothers’ superior general, and now under scrutiny by the Vatican, the board’s published criteria for assisted suicide for a mental patient seem to follow the law exactly: 1. The patient is of age or is an emancipated minor; 2. The patient makes the request independently; 3. The patient has made due consideration, including a clear choice not to go on living with unbearable suffering, and the patient has properly assessed his or her situation; and 4. The patient’s request is clear and persistent.
To be sure, the Belgian bishops and the Vatican are not happy about the turn of events, but what can they do? The people of Belgium think assisted suicide is fine, even for psychiatric patients.
Has civilization lost its collective mind? How long before the population can take things into its own hands? How long before murder and manslaughter become assisted suicide?
In mid-June, a judge found a young Massachusetts woman guilty of involuntary manslaughter because she texted and talked her friend into suicide. As the prosecutor told it: “She was in his ear, she was in his mind, she was on the phone, and she was telling him to get back in the car even though she knew he was going to die.” Her online defenders crack open the door between assisted suicide and murder: “Maybe it’s just a girl who was incredibly misguided by ignorance and the delusion that somehow it really would be better for her boyfriend if he were dead.”
I am quite sure she believes that. I am also quite sure the Brothers of Charity Group thins allowing mental patients to choose death is a good thing. I am equally sure that John Shields’ friends and family think they participated in a great and wonderful event. And I am sure The New York Times will continue pushing its assisted suicide agenda under the guise of “news.”
Yes, they shoot horses. But this is not about putting down lame horses. It is about human beings.
Many years ago, speaking about life issues, Cardinal John O’Connor told me: “The life you save may be your own.” Think about it.
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