381 North Highland Avenue Ossining, NY 10562 Parish Office: (914) 9410067 Fax: (914) 9440828 MAY 9, 2021 REV. BRIAN T. McSWEENEY, PASTOR REV. JEANPIERRE SEON, PAROCHIAL VICAR REV. MATTHEW UGWOJI, IN RESIDENCE DEACON 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 ST. AUGUSTINE CEMETERY: (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 Legion of Mary Parish Social Ministry BAPTISMS: Call the Parish Office Scouts Boys/Girls St. Augustine Society for an appointment Senior Center St. Joseph’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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During the month of May, come join us after the 8:30 AM Mass Monday ~ Saturday for the recitation of the Rosary for your personal intentions and for peace in our world. MONDAY, MAY 10: 6:30 AM William Lenzi 8:30 AM St. Michael and St. Expedite While we can continue to remain safely at home for our sake and for the sake of others, we can still participate in the traditional TUESDAY, MAY 11: services at 10:00 am and 12:00 Noon every Sunday. A 6:30 AM S. I. for the Cunningham Family 8:30 AM Nancy Parise Dispensation from Sunday Obligation is still in effect for those who are not comfortable returning at this time. Please stay WEDNESDAY, MAY 12: connected via: 6:30 AM Dante Cretara FLOCKNOTE ~ Flocknote.com; WEBSITE ~ 8:30 AM William & William J. Scumaci/S. I. for George Pires 5:30 PM Curt Baggette staugny.org; FACEBOOK ~ Augustine Saint; or YOU TUBE ~ Saint Augustine’s Ossining THURSDAY, MAY 13: 6:30 AM For a Special Intention 8:30 AM Maude Grogan 7:30 PM William Lenzi FRIDAY, MAY 14 (St. Matthias): 6:30 AM Andrew Joel Panken 8:30 AM Ryan O’Donnell/Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Hales We joyfully announce the forthcoming celebration of the SATURDAY, MAY 15: Sacrament of Marriage and ask for a remembrance in your 8:30 AM Jack Pereira/Deceased members of the Legion of Mary prayers for: 5:00 PM Michael & Martha Delfino/Wayne Roberts Colm O’Neill & Alexandra Muratore ~ II SUNDAY, MAY 16: 8:00 AM Isabella & Carl Pernicone 10:00 AM For all of our Parishioners & Benefactors Alex Bourghol 12:00 Noon Joseph Benke/Barbara Klapkowski 6:00 PM Gloria Nestor Sanctuary Lamp Memorials Weekend of Pentecost The Sanctuary Lamp will burn the week Our 2021 Cardinal's Appeal is going strong. Your support helps of May 10 ~ 16 our New York Catholic Family across the archdiocese. Your in Loving Memory of Michela Romano generosity serves our community by supporting young adult outreach, preparing couples through marriage prep, caring for our retired priests, educating our seminarians, and so much more. This year your gift will also help to provide $1 million in covid19 relief. Over 170 donors in our parish have made a gift to the 2021 Appeal! Our Parish goal is to reach 250 donors by Pentecost Last week’s Collection $ 10,318 Sunday, May 23rd. Please make your gift today by using a Average Weekly Collection from WeShare Users $ 7,048 pledge envelope or online as well: Visit: cardinalsappeal.org/ Last week’s Total Weekly Collection $ 17,366 donate to make a gift! (Be sure to select “St. AugustineN Ossining” in the dropdown “Direct My Parish Gift To”) To date, $109,163 has been received from 175 donors. Please join them in order for us to meet our goal of $178,500.
SUNDAY, MAY 9 Mother’s Day envelopes are available in the vestibule. Please fill in the names you wish to honor all during the month of May and place the envelope in the receptacle in the vestibule. OUR MOTHERS WILL BE REMEMBERED IN A SPECIAL WAY AT ALL OUR MASSES IN MAY. SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
BLESSED CHARLES DE FOUCAULD A SUMMARY OF THE PASTORAL LETTER ON VATICAN CITY The Catholic News Service THE HUMAN DIGNITY OF THE UNBORN, HOLY reported that the sainthood causes of seven men COMMUNION, AND CATHOLICS IN PUBLIC LIFE and women N including the hermit Blessed By the Most Reverend Salvatore Joseph Cordileone, Charles de Foucauld and the Indian martyr Archbishop of San Francisco Devasahayam Pillai N cleared their final hurdle “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I May 3 during an “ordinary public consistory,” a dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you”(Jer 1:5). A meeting of the pope, cardinals and promoters of young Jeremiah heard the Lord speak these words to him over 2500 years sainthood causes that formally ends the ago. In these times in which we are living, the scourge of abortion sainthood process. The meeting included a ignores the reality that humans are made in the image of God, known and prayer, an affirmation that church law had been beloved by God. This pastoral letter addresses all Catholics, but followed in preparing for the candidates’ especially Catholics in public life, calling for deep reflection on the evil declaration of sainthood and a formal request “in the name of Holy of abortion and on the meaning of receiving Holy Communion, The Mother Church” that Pope Francis set a date for the canonizations. Bread of Life. Speaking in Latin, Pope Francis approved the canonizations but said the date for the ceremony would have to be determined later, Vatican There are four pivotal points to this letter: News reported, because of the ongoing COVID19 pandemic. Blessed The gravity of the evil of abortion:Science teaches that human life Charles de Foucauld is undoubtedly the best known of the seven saints begins at conception. The ending of life through abortion tobe. Pope Francis, in his encyclical “Fratelli Tutti, on Fraternity and deeply wounds the woman and destroys the foundation of a just Social Friendship,” described Blessed de Foucauld as a “person of deep society; it is a “preeminent priority” because it violates the faith who, drawing upon his intense experience of God, made a journey right to life, the foundation of all other rights. As Catholics we of transformation toward feeling a brother to all.” must be a voice for the voiceless and the powerless; there is no “Blessed Charles directed his ideal of total surrender to God toward an one more defenseless than a child in the womb. identification with the poor, abandoned in the depths of the African Cooperation in moral evil:Who bears culpability when an abortion desert,” the pope wrote. “In that setting, he expressed his desire to feel takes place? It is never solely the mother’s act. Those who kill himself a brother to every human being and asked a friend to ‘pray to or assist in killing the child are directly involved in performing God that I truly be the brother of all.’ He wanted to be, in the end, ‘the a seriously evil act. Someone who pressures or encourages the universal brother.’ Yet only by identifying with the least did he come at mother to have an abortion, who pays for it or provides last to be the brother of all. May God inspire that dream in each one of financial assistance to organizations that provide abortions, or us.” Born in Strasbourg, France, in 1858, Blessed de Foucauld strayed who supports candidates who advance proabortion legislation from the faith during his adolescence, but during a trip to Morocco, he also cooperate by varying degrees in a grave moral evil. saw how devoted Muslims were to their faith, which inspired him to The meaning of choosing to receive the Holy Eucharist: The return to the church. He joined the Trappists, living in monasteries in Church has taught consistently for 2000 years that those who France and in Syria, before seeking an even more austere life as a receive the Eucharist are publicly professing their Catholic hermit. After his ordination to the priesthood in 1901, he lived among faith and are seriously striving to live by the moral teachings of the poor and finally settled in Tamanrasset, Algeria. In 1916, he was the Church. Those who reject the teaching of the Church on the killed by a band of marauders. His writings inspired the foundation, sanctity of human life and those who do not seek to live in after his death, of the Little Brothers of Jesus and the Little Sisters of accordance with that teaching place themselves in contradiction Jesus. to the communion of the Church, and so should not receive the sacrament of that communion, the Holy Eucharist. We all fall The martyr of India who will be declared a saint is short in various ways, but there is a great difference between Blessed Pillai, an 18thcentury Catholic layman struggling to live according to the teachings of the Church and rejecting those teachings. who was killed for refusing to refute his faith despite being brutally tortured. The responsibilities of Catholics in public life: From the three Born to an uppercaste Hindu family in 1712 and points above it follows that Catholics prominent in public life given the name Neelakanda, Blessed Pillai have a special responsibility to bear witness to the fullness of became a trusted soldier of the Hindu king but Church teaching. In addition to their own spiritual good there is later incurred his wrath for embracing also the danger of scandal: that is, by their false witness, other Christianity. Baptized in May 1745, he was given Catholics may come to doubt the Church’s teaching on the name Devasahayam, a Tamil rendering of the abortion, the Holy Eucharist, or both. This is becoming increasingly challenging in our time. biblical name Lazarus. He began preaching and converted his wife and others, which made many We are all called to conversion, not only those Catholics who are officials angry. He was arrested and sentenced to death in 1749, but prominent in public life. Let us understand what is at stake here and work just before he was sent to the gallows, the Hindu king canceled the together in building a culture of life. To those who need to hear this execution order. Blessed Pillai remained imprisoned for three more message clearly: Turn away from evil and return home to the fullness of years, enduring torture and public beatings and ridicule for refusing to your Catholic faith. We await you with open arms to welcome you back renounce his faith before secretly being taken into the jungle and shot. with joy. This Wednesday, May 12th the Golden Eagles will EULOGY host a Welcome Back Breakfast outside on the lawn/parking lot from 9:30 to 11am. Please be In the General Introduction to the Order of Christian Funerals, we sure to bring your lawn chair. Tables will be are told that a homily is to be given, “but there is never to be a provided. The breakfast will be catered by DD’s eulogy” (no.27). By a eulogy is meant an elongated narration of Diner at a special price. Cost to attend is $5. If you have not already the human achievements and qualities of the deceased person. th signed up, please do so by Monday, May 10 6pm. Please either email Certainly, homilies have to have a personal quality and the us or leave a message on the hotline to sign up. We can be reached at [email protected] or on the hotline at 9149232268. homilist has to connect the readings to the life and death of the deceased. The primary emphasis is always, however on the If in the event of rain, the breakfast will be postponed and a regular meeting will be held in the Parish Hall. readings and the symbols of the funeral riteand most of all on the Cross and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. May 9, 2021 St. Augustine Parish would like to Paschaltide Year of St. Joseph congratulate our communicants who are Dear friends in the Lord: receiving their First Holy Communion The worldwide coronavirus outbreak restricted nonessential travel today. May each of them find joy in this across the globe. Stayathome orders, physical distancing, and day and allow Him to lead them every quarantine practices implemented to mitigate the spread of the step of the way. May the Good Lord disease revealed great and urgent needs, especially in those coun- bless them today and always. tries of Eastern Europe still in turbulent transition stages. There, weak economies were made more vulnerable, and those affected included the elderly as well as doctors, nurses, and medical chap- Adara Alba Natalia Medina lains. James Balascio Alexa Mirabella Now, in spite of all of these challenges, the Ukrainian Greek Cath- Emma Berlinski Ava Mohler olic Church (UGCC) came to the assistance of homebound senior McKenna Blanchfield Nadia Narvaez citizens in many cities, using Church facilities to organize the work Ryan Blanchfield Ariana Neto and engage both local volunteers and assistance from abroad. Vol- Giada D’Eramo Amy Pani unteers prepared meals and delivered them. The UGCC mobilized Samantha De Agustini Austin Perez its network of about 120 hospital chaplains and collected and dis- Giuseppe D’Itri Ryder Pincus tributed badly needed protective clothing, masks, sanitizer, and Stella Mae Engelking Isabella Porricelli other necessities to ensure their safety as they ministered to the Eva Fajardo Ayleen Pugo sick throughout the country. Dylan Feenstra Regan Romeo Katherine Fiore Andie Rosenbaum Your participation in the collection for the Church in Central and Alaina Franco Isaac Ryan Easter Europe expresses your care and support for the people in Logan Frustace Ariabelle Sabado Ukraine and throughout the region, especially in times of crisis and Christopher Gomes Daisy Santelli disruption. Emmett HanlonWells Sophia Sartario Please be generous to the appeal because your support helps foster Antonio Jarl Meredith Sclafani nurturing communities in which Catholics can share and grow in Katherine Kennedy Elizabeth Stewart faith. For more information, visit www.usccb.org/ccee. Ian Lubi Katelyn Tassio With gratitude to you for your help to restore the Church and build the Estella Makaj Adriana Trustman future in Central and Eastern Europe, and with my prayerful best wishes Aiden Mannarino Liam Ung for a joyful Easter season, I am, Bianca Vescio Faithfully in Christ, Be Informed ~ May 9th: We hope you are enjoying the parish subscription to www.formed.org which gives parishioners and members of the community free 24/7 access to over 300 quality Catholic on line Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan programs, 99+ movies, 101+ audios, & 98+ EBooks. Happy Mother’s Archbishop of New York Day. Simply register with parish code W3JKWN and enjoy. Thursday is the Solemnity of The Ascension of The Lord. Study: Symbolon: Knowing the Faith, Session 6: The Paschal Mystery, or Formed Now: The Glorious Mysteries, Part 2, The Ascension. Listen to: This Changes Expectant Mother Care empowers girls and women Everything. On the 13th remember Mary, Our Lady of Fatima. Study: in the NYC area to courageously choose mother- Divine Mercy, Episode 6: Fatima. Watch: Finding Fatima, The 13th hood, and by helping support her and her unborn Day, or Fatima Hope for the World. For children Watch: The Day the child, we honor the sanctity of every human life. Sun Danced. Please support Expectant Mother Care by taking home a baby bottle from the box in the vestibule to your family on Mothers' Day and returning it on Jim Marcinkiewicz from LPi, our bulletin Fathers' Day filled with donations for EMC. Your publisher, was with us this past week generosity saves lives. Thank you for your support. securing advertisers for our bulletin. We would like to thank all the advertisers who have generously committed to the bulletin WELCOME TO ST. AUGUSTINE CHURCH for this year! 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