Office Hours

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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.” (Micah 6:8b)

Pastoral Team

 Rev. Jose Jacob, SMM — Pastor [email protected]  Carol Kaczmarek — Pastoral Assistant [email protected]  Christina Koch— Bookkeeper [email protected]  Martha 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 Robin Borkowski Ann Carlsen John Tanner Cathy Fasanelli Terri Donahue Carol Kaczmarek Christina Koch Maureen Ferris Elizabeth Abbinanti Douglas Lake Deb Himmelmann Ellen Shore John Leonardis Deb Mazura John McNally Parish Outreach (631) 369-7142 Jill Meise

[email protected] Jane Shearer Tom St. Pierre Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Vincent Sweeney Food Pantry Hours: Thursday 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. William Hurley

Sts. Peter & Paul RC Church

Weekly Schedule at Sts. Peter and Paul MASS SCHEDULE

Saturday Vigil Mass 5:00 p.m. Sunday, October 6th, 2019 To October 13th, 2019 Sunday, 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. Sunday Keys to the Kingdom Youth Group WE CELEBRATE EUCHARIST 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Basement Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at 9:00 a.m. Monday Ultreya 7:30 p.m. Daily Mass Chapel WE CELEBRATE Tuesday St. Vincent de Paul 3rd Sunday of the Month 7:00 p.m. Please contact the Rectory at least six weeks in advance to make Conference Room arrangements. Baptism Preparation Classes are required. Wednesday Al-Anon 7:00 p.m. Basement WE CELEBRATE MARRIAGE Thursday 2nd Grade First Holy Communion Marriage arrangements should be made at least one year in Parent Mtg. advance. 7:00 p.m. Community Hall 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 8:00 p.m. Appointment.

ANOINTING OF THE SICK Saturday Praying the Rosary for America 12:00 p.m. Church If you are suffering from an illness or having major surgery, please Sunday call for an appointment for Fr. Jose to visit you and administer the Sacrament of the Sick.

COMMUNION FOR THE HOMEBOUND Diocese of Rockville Centre

Do you know someone who is sick, in the hospital, or homebound Sunday, October 6th is Respect and would like to receive Holy Communion? Please call the Life Sunday. As we celebrate Rectory for assistance. Respect Life Sunday, we are reminded that the assaults on ADORATION OF THE BLESSED human dignity come in many SACRAMENT forms. The Respect Life Office is charged with deepening our Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament will take place on Fridays, already strong commitment to following the 9:00 a.m. Mass until 8:00 p.m. The Chapel is pro-life activities and parish always open for silent prayer. education. Please support this vital work through participation in the special Respect Life en- velope collection. Your pray- ers and assistance are greatly appreciated.

Enhancing Stewardship through There are many Masses available for your Electronic Funds Transfer intentions. Please contact the Rectory at To get started log on to: 631-369-1273 to schedule a Mass for a loved one. www.saintspeterandpaul.org and click on the Parish Giving Logo.

October 6th, 2019

WEEKLY SCRIPTURE READING Mass Intentions for Twenty-sixth Week In Ordinary Time October 8th, 2019 through October 13th, 2019

10-06 Respect Life Sunday Hb 1:2-3, 2:2-4 Tuesday, October 8th, 2019 2 Tm 1:6-8, 13-14 9:00 AM In Thanksgiving for Answered Prayer Lk 17:5-10 (Carol Kaczmarek)

10-07 Our Lady of the Rosary Wednesday, October 9th, 2019 Jon 1:1-2:2, 11 9:00 AM Gerald Bennett Lk 10:25-37 (Joan Bennett)

10-08 Jon 3:1-10 Thursday, October 10th, 2019 Lk 10:38-42 9:00 AM Luigia Manzo (Maria and Tom Stubbolo)

10-09 Saints Denis, Bishop and Companions, ,

Saint John Leonardi, Priest Friday, October 11th, 2019 Jon 4:1-11 9:00 AM Catherine and John Segreto Lk 11:1-4 (John Segreto)

10-10 Mal 3:13-20b Lk 11:5-13 Saturday, October 12th, 2019 5:00 PM James DiMichino 10-11 Saint John XXIII, Pope (Julia DiMichino)

Jl 1:13-15; 2:1-2 Sunday, October 13th, 2019 Lk 11:15-26 9:00 AM 10-12 Jl 4:12-21 Lk 11:27-28 11:00 AM Rose Alfano St. John (Paul and Joel Sahli)

Alice Claire Sorrelle Next Week’s Readings (June and Paul Vieira) October 13th, 2019 Twenty-eight Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:00 PM People of the Parish 2 Kgs 5:14-17 2 Tm 2:8-13 Lk 17:11-19

St. Vincent de Paul The community of Sts. Peter and Paul are invited to In today's Gospel Jesus tells his disciples, "When join in praying the Rosary for America and our own you have done all you have been commanded, special intentions on Saturday October 12th at noon in say, we are unprofitable servants, we have only our Church. Please join us and be part of this spiritual done what we were obliged to do." event as we show our active commitment to the Blessed Mother and pray for the needs of our Nation. This week, please help the Society of St Vincent de Paul to bring the love and mercy of Jesus to Tweet from Pope Francis those who feel left out and abandoned, for indeed Through our small steps of love, God does great things. we are only doing, "what we are obliged to do". He accomplishes the salvation of the world. Let us entrust to St. Therese of the Child Jesus, our faithful friend, the #ExtraordinaryMissionaryMonth that begins 10/1.

Our Lady of Queen of Apostles Regional Catholic School 2 St. John’s Place Join us in praying the Center Moriches, New York 11934 Rosary every Tuesday through Friday 631-878-1033 before Mass at 8:30 a.m.

October 6th, 2019

TIME, TALENT & TREASURE Bulletin Reflection In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus explains to us how powerful faith is. PARISH SACRIFICIAL How strong is your faith? How strong is it when the going gets GIVING tough?

September 29th, 2019 Stewardship—Pillar of Service In the Second Reading and the Gospel reading, St. Paul and Jesus tell us that as we must be doers. God has given us the Faith so

Sunday Collection: $4,274.00 that we can go out to the world and tell of the Good News. This week, show the world you are a Christian by taking a stand for moral- i ty, doing good for others and wearing a smile . Parish Giving (electronic donations): $1,297.00

Children’s Envelopes: $ 105.00

Total Collection for 09/29/2019 $5,676.00

Total Collection for 09/30/2018 $6,356.33

Sunday Mass Attendance 551 Born: Died: Beautified: Canonized: Feast Day: August 8th : Quote: “We are the fourteen helpers and wish to erect a chapel here, where we can rest. If you will be our servant, we will be yours.”

Patron Of: Plague, sudden death, childbirth, fever, good confession, headaches, throat sickness, stomach aches, epilepsy, domestic animal health, physicians, temptation on the death bed, family troubles, holy helper

The , Aka Auxiliary Saints, are a group of Our thoughts and prayers go out to... saints venerated together, which when invoked for their intercession, is markedly powerful in assisting the health of the sick. Those Who Are Sick Devotion to the Fourteen Holy Helpers began in the 14th century dur- Sean Larsen Avi Fisher Alan Hernandez ing the bubonic plague outbreak in Rhineland, Germany. The bubon- Garrett Vero Jim Casio Bob Russell ic plague is also known as the “The Black Death,” which was the Gloria Lennon Frances Anest Jo Livote most devasting epidemic in world history. Approximately, seventy- Piper Jamleson Elaine Dawes- Jane Shearer five to two hundred million people died in Eurasia and the Mediterra- Peter Peppler Lampach Maria Segreto nean between 1347 and 1351. Joan Tortorice Lynn Turnquist Louis Pontillo At the heart of the Holy Helpers are three virgin martyrs: Dawn Dillon Leat Catherine Sauer Holly Serres Fred Mennigke Melissa Salinas Saint Margaret Michael Einfeldt Josette Panzarella Carl & CJ Schildt Paul Donahue Saint Catherine Helen Robinson Pamela Borock Andrew J. Munch Lou Scarpati Saint Margaret is the of safe childbirth, Saint Barbara is Dan & Doreen Kane Louis Tortillio invoked for fever and sudden death while Saint Catherine is be- Rod Walsh Joseph Tamborello seeched for protection from a sudden death. William McGann Mary Russo The remaining saints and their patronages are:

Saint Christopher – against plague, sudden death Those Who Serve Our Country – against plague, good confession Russell Candell Saint Denis – relief from headaches Quentin Montemarano – throat sicknesses Saint Elmo – stomach aches, domestic animal health Jesse Trafford Saint – epilepsy, domestic animal health Jared Yevoli – physicians, domestic animal health Sean Hendrickson Saint – temptation on the death bed Connor Hendrickson – healer of family troubles Eric Morgenstern Continued Page 6

Sts. Peter & Paul RC Church

The Twenty-seventh Week of Ordinary Daily Prayer This Week Time Jesus is so full of surprises. This week, we can let his sur- We read from Luke's Gospel on the Twenty-Seventh Sun- prising ways interact with our daily lives. All of us, in day of Ordinary Time about the apostles asking Jesus, some ways, tend to want to trap - or at least intensely re- “Increase our faith.” Jesus assures them they only need faith sist - the prophets who call us to conversion. We are all the size of a mustard seed. Then, Jesus makes it clear that as asking our Lord to tell us what we need to do to have disciples our role is that of servants. eternal life. We might all know the ways we don't like his answer. The invitation to love our neighbor, the way the Monday is the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary. lowly Samaritan did, can be a revealing question for us this week. Who is the neighbor or stranger or enemy The first readings this week offer again a sampling of several whom I'm called to help, care for their wounds, and pro- different Old Testament sources including the reluctant vide for their recovery? Or, we can reflect upon whether prophet, Jonah; then Malachi (“But for you who fear my we are too busy, and not focused enough on what really name, there will arise the sun of justice with its healing rays matters - spending some time just listening to Jesus. Per- ”); and Joel, (“Then shall you know that I, the LORD, am haps, we have some desire, need, struggle that we very your God, dwelling on Zion, my holy mountain; Jerusalem much want to turn to the Lord with. This could be the shall be holy, and strangers shall pass through her no more.”) week we ask, seek and knock - persistently and confi- dently. All week, we can ask for the grace to be “with” Luke's Gospel continues during the weekdays with some of Jesus and to “gather” with him, perhaps especially alert to our most familiar and beloved stories. The Good Samaritan ways we are “against” Jesus or “scatter” in different teaches us about loving. In the Mary and Martha story, Jesus things we do or attitudes we take. nudges his dear friend Martha to calm her spirit and choose carefully what she spends time on. Luke offers a look at Je- All it takes for us busy people is a little focus. We will sus praying alone before sharing his prayer with us. With the get into the habit of beginning each day by bringing our story of the friend banging on the door in the night, Jesus attention to these strong desires with practice. At first, it encourages us to “ask and you will receive; seek and you may work best to rely on a line from one of these Guides will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” When - letting it be our expression of what we need and return- his opponents try to confuse the people about Jesus' authori- ing to it consciously throughout the day. ty, he says, “Whoever is not with me is against me, and who- ever does not gather with me scatters.” We end the week With practice, we will grow in comfort with naming our with Jesus emphasizing his relationship with the Father as own desires more precisely. For example, I might already being stronger than earthly relationships. be more like Mary than Martha. I might want to be asking our Lord, “Help me keep listening to you, Lord, through- For the Twenty-Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time we have out this day.” It may be that I haven't said the Rosary with the powerful story about Jesus healing ten lepers and only devotion in years. This may be a week to rediscover that one of them coming back to give thanks, and that one was powerful prayer, a decade at time, throughout the day, the foreigner. It reminds us of the importance of gratitude. reflecting much more deliberately on the traditional mys- teries or the reflections of this week. http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/online.html Used with permission.” Every night, we can all express our thanks to the Lord for the faithful way we are being invited to a closer relation-

ship, in the midst of our busy, daily lives.

St. Diocesan High School

Sunday, October 27th, 2019

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October 6th, 2019

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Saint George – domestic animal health Saint Acacius – holy helper

Saint Giles is the only holy helper who was not martyred. The holy helpers are honored in Bavaria at the Basilica of the Vierzehnheiligen. In 1445, Hermann Leicht, a shepherd of the Cis- tercian Monastery in Langheim, saw a crying child, however when he went to pick him up, he disappeared. He soon reappeared with two candles. In June of 1446, the child appeared a third time with Arianna Mary Adamo Samantha Clare Baker thirteen other children and this time he bore a red cross on his shirt. Patrick William Carroll Isabella Victoria DiRaffaele (St. Blaise) He said to Hermann, "We are the fourteen helpers and Isabella Gianna Donnangelo Lauren Julia Dunne wish to erect a chapel here, where we can rest. If you will be our Connor Michael Franco Aidan Charles Kellachan servant, we will be yours!" Shortly after, two burning candles de- Payton Serena Macedonio Nicholas John Marulli scended to the ground. occurred at this location and the Ashley Julia Minnear Megan Aquilina Moran Cistercian brothers built a chapel. Pilgrims flocked to the area and the altar was consecrated in 1448. Today, pilgrimages occur May Ryan Sebastian Murray Danielle Ava Nicholson through October. Katelyn Ambrose Peshkur Jessica Laura Pinelli Matthew Charles Poole Carley Cassidy Racca Christian Sebastian Raeihle Jesse Kevin Romaine Alexis Marie Sbaschnik Rebecca Helen Schumacher Heather Emma Stregare Heidi Emma Strawgate Stephen John White

2nd Grade First Comm. Parent Mtg. Thursday, October 10th, 7:00 p.m., Community Hall

The 2019-2020 Faith Formation Classes begin the week of October 15th except for the Sunday and Monday classes. Be- cause of the holiday, they will begin the week of October 20th. Any questions, please contact the Rectory at 631-208-1978.

October 20th, 2019 10:15 a.m.

Looking forward to seeing everyone! Olga

“Lord, take pity on me. If you find a parking place, I will give up alcohol.” Miraculously, a parking place appeared at that very Brother Jim was driving down the street in moment. Brother Jim looked up again, “Never mind, a panic. He had an important meeting in Lord,” the brother said with a sigh of relief, “I found ten minutes and couldn’t find a parking one myself.” place. Looking up to heaven, he prayed