Sacred Heart Church 301 Ann Street Newburgh, New York 12550

Phone: 845-561-2264 Fax: 845-562-7144 Website: http://Sacredheartnewburgh.org E-mail: [email protected] Third Sunday of Advent December 11, 2016 Those whom the L has ransomed will return and enter Zion singing, crowned with everlasting joy. — 35:10a December 11, 2016 Welcome to Sacred Heart Church Page 1

CELEBRATION OF SACRAMENTS

BAPTISM: Communal celebrations of Baptism take place Saturday Evening: 5:00 PM on the first and third Sundays at 2:00 PM. To arrange a Bap- Sunday:10:00AM, 12:00PM tism, please call the Rectory. A Baptismal Instruction Session is 1st Sunday 8:00 AM Italian/English Mass required before the Baptism. Because Godparents play an im- Monday-Saturday: 9:00 AM in the Chapel portant role in the child’s Christian life and education, Godpar- Holy Days of Obligation: Mass times will be listed in ents must be practicing Catholics who have been confirmed, the bulletin on the Sunday prior to the holy day. are at least 16 years of age and, if married, must be in a mar- riage recognized by the . If there is a question about the suitability of someone to be a Godparent, please call the Rectory before asking the person to be a Godparent. Pastoral and Administrative Staff RECONCILIATION: The Sacrament of Penance takes place Rev. Andrew Kurzyna, Pastor on Saturdays from 4:00 to 4:45 PM. At other times, the person Rev. Bejoy Thomas Valliyil, CMI Parochial Vicar should make the request directly to a priest. Peter R.C. Haight, Deacon Frank Iovine, Deacon MARRIAGE: Engaged couples should contact the Rectory Deacon John Sadowski - Parish Business Manager at least six months in advance. Diocesan regulations require a marriage preparation program for all couples. Mrs. Wendy Timperio, Secretary MINISTRY TO THE SICK AND HOMEBOUND: If a parishion- er is in the hospital or homebound, please contact the Rectory. Regional Catholic School Arrangements can be made for the person to receive the Sac- 24 South Robinson Avenue 845-561-1433 rament of the Anointing of the Sick. Also, Holy Communion can http://shsnewburgh.org be brought to our homebound parishioners. Mrs. Lori DiMarco-Evanko, Principal Mrs. Beth DaSilva, School Secretary

Sacred Heart Religious Education Program PARISHIONER REGISTRATION 24 South Robinson Avenue 845-561-2589 Parishioner registration is important to the parish as well Mrs. Lynda Piper, Coordinator as the parishioner. All parishioners are encouraged to register. Once you have registered and continue to par- Trustees ticipate by attending Mass and receiving the Eucharist Mr. Peter Biolsi and Mr. Bruce Lubkeman regularly; you will find it helpful for the enrollment of

Sacred Heart Convent children in the Religious Education Program, and to 15 Stori Road 845-565-5034 obtain the necessary documents to become a Godpar- Sr. Alba Danese, F.M.I., Pastoral Assistant ent or a sponsor for Confirmation. Sr. Anna Sasso, F.M.I., Pastoral Assistant If you would like to register please stop by the rectory during regular business hours. Monday thru Friday 9am to 4pm. If you are presently receiving envelopes and would like PARISH DEVOTIONS them discontinued please call the rectory and we will Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament takes place on the assist you. (845-561-2264) First Friday evening from 7:00 - 9:00 PM

Rosary prayed following the 9:00 AM Mass, Monday through Saturday in the Chapel. Stations of the Cross: (Lent Only) Fridays at 7:00 PM KEEPING UP WITH EXPENSES The parish effort to closely manage day to day expens- es continues. However, expenses such as utilities, prop- BULLETIN ITEMS erty insurance and our archdiocesan assessment for central services (in some months totaling as much as Items you wish to place in the parish bulletin MUST be submitted, in writing, to the rectory by 4:00 PM on Mondays for the following $15,000) put a strain on our ability to keep current with Sunday. Email address is all expenses. Our objective is to achieve that goal with- [email protected] out any assistance from the Archdiocese. The continued Every effort will be made to get your item in the bulletin in a timely generosity of every parishioner and increased giving manner and as space allows. whenever possible will make that possible. Thank you Thank you for your cooperation. for your continued support.

SILENCE IS GOLDEN and APPRECIATED Our Eucharistic Community invite you to be “FULLY PRESENT” during our Mass, PARISH PAY WEEKLY OFFERINGS THROUGH AUTO- we ask that you kindly turn off all electronic devices. MATED GIVING: is available to parishioners. Please log Thank you for your cooperation. onto: www.parishpay.com to enroll online. December 11, 2016 Page 2

December 10 and 11, 2016 Year of Mercy MONDAY, December 12 9:00 Elmer F. Stanford 31st anv. Dear friends in the Lord:

TUESDAY, December 13 Today, our parishes will take up the annual archdiocesan 9:00 Lucy Pendino collection for the thousands of retired Catholic sisters and brothers whose hard work, prayers, and sacrifices WEDNESDAY, December 14 helped build our Catholic schools, hospitals, and charita- 9:00 John, Lena Argenio ble agencies. These dedicated women and men gave - and deceased children and give - their lives in extraordinary and exemplary ser- vice to the archdiocese, and now, as they move into their THURSDAY, December 15 senior years, we are able to offer them in return our love 9:00 Matthew Bones and support through this annual collection that helps to provide for their needs. FRIDAY, December 16 9:00 Caroline Gaudioso Be assured that I am fully aware of the many good caus- es which you are asked to support and, at the same SATURDAY, December 17 time, that many of us are faced with trying financial situa- 9:00 Philip Cantone tions at home. As the Christmas season of generous giv- 5:00 John Relyea ing approaches, please do whatever you can to assist Mary Marinzel our retired religious.

SUNDAY, December 18 With prayerful bet wishes for a blessed Advent season, I 10:00 Mary Crachiolo and Louis Gizzarelli am, 12:00 Christian Martinisi Faithfully in Christ,

Timothy Cardinal Dolan Archbishop of New York

December 3 and 4 $5,539 Prepare the Way of Maintenance $1,571 the Lord! Attendance 703 So the Advent Season summons us to action. Minds and hearts made clean through the Sacrament of Reconciliation help us to receive Christ worthily at Christmas. Breakfast with Santa On Reconciliation Monday, December 19, priests will Today from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm in be available in every parish of the Archdiocese from 4 - 8 pm. Gallo Hall, Sacred Heart School Please set aside time for this important preparation Holiday raffles, vendors and pictures for Christmas. with Santa and Mrs. Claus!

Keeping Advent…. 2017 Calendars Copies of the Magnificat; Advent Companion and The Word Among Us; Meditations for Advent are are available in the vestibule of the available at the church doors. Church. December 11, 2016 Page 3

UPCOMING EVENT

Please see the bulletin for more information REP ANNOUNCEMENT as the date approaches

Dec 11 Breakfast with Santa - Gallo Hall The REP program will be selling 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM the ULTIMATE DISCOUNT CARDS once again this year. Dec. 18 Family Mass 10:00 AM Blessing of the Hay They make great stocking stuffers after Mass family movie with refreshments for Christmas! Please call the Dec. 18 Second Annual Cookie Walk REP office 845-561-2589 for

Dec 19 Advent Reconciliation 4:00 - 8:00 PM more information.

Dec. 24 Christmas Eve Masses 5:00 and 10:00 PM Dec. 25 Christmas Day Masses 10:00 am &12 noon 2016 Christmas Schedule

Monday, December 19, 2016 A Very Special Invitation Reconciliation Monday Confessions will be from 4 - 8 PM

You are invited, after the Saturday, December 24, 2016 Christmas Eve 10 am Mass on December 18, 5:00 PM and 10:00 PM

to a family movie with Sunday, December 25, 2016 Christmas Day Holy Day of Obligation refreshments in the Activity 10:00 AM and 12:00 Noon

Center. Saturday, December 31, 2016 New Year’s Eve 5:00 PM Free hot dogs and popcorn. Sunday, January 1, 2017 And, a very special visit from New Year’s Day Holy Day of Obligation Santa. 10:00 AM and 12:00 Noon Please come and join us.

Christmas Flowers For the Church Save the Date! If you would like to make a do- Our Second Annual Cookie nation in memory of your loved ones, please use the enve- Walk fund-raiser will take place on lopes you receive in the enve- December 17 and 18. Make sure you lope packet mailed to your save the date and indulge in the deli- home or use a flower envelope cious Christmas cookies prepared by Sacred Heart found at the entrances to the Church. Church parishioners. Please return the memorial envelopes by Sunday, If you would like to volunteer to bake your specialty, December 18th. We will print a list of memorials in the please call Grace Profaci at 845-566-0408. January bulletin. December 11, 2016 Page 4

The following parishioners are in need of our prayers, The Giving Trees are now in place and the branches have the donation tags on them. You may select a tag Deacon Dominick Casadone, before and after Mass. The tags will be available this weekend and next. You can leave your gift under the Theresa DiChiaro, Sally Drennen, Janie Favoino, tree but if you have a gift card please hand it to one of Juanita Favoino, Andrea Marie Forster, the ushers. All gifts MUST BE RETURNED NO LATER Catherine Fossella, Scott Friedle, THAN NOON MASS ON DECEMBER 18. Bernadette Gallagher, Pat Garzione, Tom Hare, Frances Marino, Thomas Marino, IMPORTANT: Please make sure the TAG IS RE- Sharon Maurice, Joann Fayo-Perry, TURNED WITH THE GIFT and DO NOT WRAP your Gloria Presutti, Art Quick, Jr., gift. This is the only way we are able to track each sepa- Mary Ventcenque, Marc Verlinger, Rudy Warren, rate donation request from the organizations and mark it Patricia Young off of the Gift List. We ask family members of those on our prayer list to please If you take a tag and you find that you cannot purchase call the Rectory Office (561-2264) to confirm that these that gift, please return the tag to the tree. We will make names should continue to remain on our list. (revised November sure that the tag is given to someone else who will be 1, 2015)) able to make the purchase. This way, no one will be left without receiving that special gift on Christmas morning.

It will be a blessing to those who receive and a blessing MEMBERS OF THE and wonderful feeling to those who give. ARMED SERVICES Please remember the following members of the armed services in your prayers EMERGENCY BLOOD SHORTAGE LCpl Nick Kozlik - US Marines Spec C. J. Kozlik - US Army Our community blood supply is experiencing lower than average supply for this time of year. We ask that family members of those on our MEMBERS OF THE ARMED SERVICE prayer list call the Rectory Office (561-2264) We highly encourage you to visit any of the upcoming to confirm that these names should continue to remain on our list. blood drives in our area to give the gift of life this (revised November 1, 2015) Christmas season:

12/14 2-8 pm Gold’s Gym, 15 Racquet Road (in memory of Michael Jordan, Sr.) Thank You! 12/15 8:30 am - 5 pm Wallkill Senior High School 90 Robinson Drive, Wallkill The St. Vincent de Paul Society of Sacred Heart Church would like to thank our Sacred Heart Parish 12/18 8 am - 2 pm St. Mary’s Church, family for your support of our annual Thanksgiving 71 Grand Street, Marlboro Food Drive. Through your generosity, our parish was

able to donate 319 bags of food to the Loaves and 12/27 12-6 pm Fairacre Farms Fishes Program. 1240 Route 300, Newburgh

12/28 1-7 pm Highland Falls Library As we begin this holiday season let us all be grateful 298 Main Street, Highland Falls for the many blessings that have been given to each of us. Let us continue to be kind and generous to one 1/5 1-7 pm Otterkill Engine Company another. 13 Maybrook Road, Campbell Hall May you and your families have a blessed Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year.

Sacred Heart Parish has a website, Facebook Page and Blog. The Facebook Page and Blog can be easily accessed from the Links provided on the website navigation bar. All questions and concerns should be directed via email to our WebMaster, Charles Mahoney at [email protected] December 11, 2016 Third Sunday of Advent Page 5

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION When the ties of affection and authority that bound . Europe’s Catholics unraveled in the sixteenth century, A SEASON OF HOPE many cultures lost time-honored customs of faith. Some Today we can bask in the imagery that the Mass customs proved to be especially difficult for the reform- readings offer us. In particular, Isaiah’s vision of a ers to wrest away from the people, especially those cel- parched land that blooms with abundant flowers holds a ebrated in the home. This week in Sweden, a country message for each of us. Too often we are just like that where the Catholic Church was disestablished four hun- parched land. We can allow ourselves to become ab- dred years ago, a Catholic martyr from Sicily is the most sorbed in the waves of consumerism that grip so many. beloved figure. St. Lucia, Lucy, is celebrated on Decem- We look for fulfillment in the things that money can buy. ber 13. The long-story-short is that Lucy was a Christian Unfortunately, this leaves us like parched land, thirsting whose father wanted to marry her off to a pagan fellow, for something that money can’t buy. This holy season and she rejected her father’s authority. To make an ex- has much to offer to quench our thirsts. In a word, this ample of her, her father had her killed. In the course of season offers hope. We are told that those who are ran- the brutal martyrdom, Lucy lost her beautiful eyes, but somed by God will know joy and gladness. For them, her vision was miraculously restored. The candles worn sorrow and mourning will be no more. Let us place our today by the eldest daughter of the family are tokens of hope in these promises. the fire that refused to harm the . So this patroness Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.. . of light and clear vision is revered on the shortest, dark- est days of the Nordic winter. Before the reform of the Gregorian calendar in the sixteenth century, December 13 was the winter solstice. TODAY’S READINGS Today, young girls appear in the morning wearing lighted candles on their crowned heads (battery- First Reading — The barren deserts will rejoice and operated now after many mishaps), and serve sweet flower. Tired bodies will receive rolls and coffee to everyone in the house. For the strength. Aching hearts will be made Swedes, who are not churchgoers, the “Lucias” are the glad (Isaiah 35:1-6a, 10). official heralds of the holiday season and a sign of eve- Psalm — Lord, come and save us (Psalm 146). ryone’s yearning for more light in this world. Europe Second Reading — Be patient, for the coming of the once abounded with customs like this; the survival of Lord is as sure as the rain (James 5:7-this custom in Scandinavia is a sign of God’s grace, and 10). how fertile the soil is to receive the true message of Gospel — Tell of what you hear and see: The blind re Advent. gain their vision, the crippled their —Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. movement, the deaf their hearing (Matthew 11:2-11). The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, Interna- tional Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. Apostolate of Prayer Father, in your plan of salvation you provide shepherds for your people. Fill your Church with a spirit of courage and love. Raise up worthy ministers to your altars, ar- READINGS FOR THE WEEK dent but gentle servants of the Gospel. To those clergy who have already answered your call, grant joy and Monday: Zec 2:14-17 or Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab; perseverance in your service. Amen. Jdt 13:18bcde, 19; Lk 1:26-38 or Lk 1:39-47, or any readings from the Common of the Dec 12 Rev. William Damroth Blessed Mary, nos. 707-712 Rev. Anthony Trung Nguyen, O.Carm Tuesday: Zep 3:1-2, 9-13; Ps 34:2-3, 6-7, 17-19, 23; Mt 21:28-32 Dec 13 Rev. Christopher Argano Wednesday: Is 45: 6b-8, 18, 21b-25; Ps 85:9ab, 10-14; Deacon William Testa Lk 7:18b-23 Dec 14 Rev. Emmanuel Anyansi Thursday: Is 54:1-10; Ps 30:2, 4-6, 11-12a, 13b; Rev. Michael Kissane, O.Carm Lk 7:24-30 Dec 15 Rev. Jeffrey Pomeisl Friday: Is 56:1-3a, 6-8; Ps 67:2-3, 5, 7-8; Jn 5:33-36 Deacon Daniel Dyrine Saturday: Gn 49:2, 8-10; Ps 72:1-4ab, 7-8, 17; Dec 16 Rev. John Bonnici Mt 1:1-17 Rev. Andrew Kurzyna Sunday: Is 7:10-14; Ps 24:1-6; Rom 1:1-7; Mt 1:18-24 Dec 17 Vocations and seminarians Dec 18 Francis