128 West 37th Street (West of Broadway) , New York, NY 10018 Tel: (212) 279-5861 Fax: (212) 714-9313 www.innocents.com THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME NOVEMBER 17, 2013
REGULAR MASS SCHEDULE
MONDAY-FRIDAY: 7:30 am, 12:15 pm, 6:00 pm (Traditional Latin Mass )
SATURDAY : 12 Noon: (on 2nd Saturdays only) 1 pm: Traditional Latin Mass 4 pm: Vigil Mass for Sunday
SUNDAY MASS: 10:30 am: Latin Missa Cantata 12:30 pm: Mass in English
DEVOTIONS
The Liturgy of the Hours: Mondays & Fridays 12:00 Noon
The Rosary: Tue, Wed & Thu at 12:00 Noon
Exposition of The Blessed Sacrament: This will be a time for you to bear testimony. Weekdays after the 12:15 pm Settle it therefore in your minds, not to meditate beforehand Mass how to answer; for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which
Benediction: Weekdays 5:45 pm none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.
The Divine Mercy Chaplet: – Luke 21: 5-19 Monday—Thursday: 3:00 pm PARISH CLERGY: CHURCH OFFICE: (ext. 210) Friday: 3:00 pm & 5:15 pm Father George Rutler, Administrator Vijay Wijesundera Overnight Prayer Vigil: First Father Louis Van Thanh (ext. 217) Friday of the month 7pm 6am SACRISTANS: IN RESIDENCE: RECONCILIATION Liliana Calderon, William Delgado, Agustin Terron Father Thomas Kallumady (on leave ) Wed. & Thu.: 4:00 5:00 pm Father Oliver Chanama (ext. 216) HOUSEHOLD:
Friday: 12 2pm (English/Español) VISITING CLERGY: Aracely Barrezueta Sat. & Sun.: 1 hour before each Father Owen Lafferty h of the Masses ISAIAH HALL: (ext. 226) Father James Goode, OFM er Th (at other times inquire in Rectory) John Azzarelli Father Leonard Glavin, OFM Cap. omas
MAKINGMAKING ALLALL THINGSTHINGS NEWNEW
As many of you already know, Cardinal Dolan has asked all parishes of the Archdiocese to participate in his parish planning process called “Making All Things New”
Please see page 3 for a message from our Parish Core Team on the parishioner survey which is now available in the church. While we thank all who have let their opinions be known to us, it is important for all parishioners to complete this survey, so that your voice will be heard. Also see back cover for Cardinal Dolan’s Pastoral Letter on “Making All Things New.”
offending the persecutors, some of whom are assisted by U.S. tax money in the form of foreign From Father Rutler aid and military assistance. Sometimes there is just a bias against Judeo-Christian culture on the part of secularists who think that the enemy of their enemy is their friend. Some Western sophisticates cast a blind eye to the rise of Nazism in the 1930’s because the National Socialists explained themselves as enemies of Marxism.
The revival of anti-Semitism in Europe today is accompanied by hostility to Christianity, and this is not limited to Europe. Many of our own public institutions deny freedom of speech to Christians, and public professions of faith in Christ receive a hostile reception in significant parts of academe. Christianity is evaporating in the Middle East as Christians are leaving countries where roots go back to the earliest apostolic foundations. The beheading of converts to Christianity hardly seems exceptional anymore. In Iran, Kazakh Christians are intimidated by the arrest of their pastors, and churches are destroyed from Egypt to Pakistan. The recent massacre of Christians in a This past November 9th and 10th marked the Kenyan shopping mall could not be overlooked by seventy-fifth anniversary of Kristallnacht , when the secular press, but it was soon forgotten, and mobs attacked properties belonging to Jews in there is little outrage at the imprisonment and Berlin and other German cities. Synagogues, torture of thousands of Christians in Eritrean hospitals and schools were defaced or destroyed, 91 desert camps. Countless Christians are being were killed and 30,000 Jews were sent to persecuted in odium fidei — hatred of the Faith. prototypical concentration camps. It was a bold Their bravery should humble us who live in calmer declaration of the Nazi intent to destroy a people. places, but it is also a warning that echoes Christ Many Germans nobly acted with revulsion at what himself:“Everyone will hate you because of me, but had become of their government. One man the one who stands firm to the end will be symbolic of such was Cardinal Michael von saved” (Mark 13:13). Faulhaber, archbishop of Munich, who helped the Chief Rabbi of the city rescue the Torah and sacred vessels before his synagogue was attacked. The Nazis ransacked the Cardinal’s own home and Donald V. S. Hunter (RIP) threatened him with Dachau. He survived all that, and in 1951 he ordained two young brothers, one of Donald V. S. Hunter, whom would become Pope Benedict XVI. our parishioner, who, among other work, was This is not just an historical vignette, for tragic deeply involved in the events often repeat themselves in different forms computer classes and circumstances when people ignore them, and in Isaiah Hall, passed much of the world in 1938 tried to away October 28th. treat Kristallnacht as an isolated incident with no portent of worse things to come. The sad fact is that May his soul Rest in Peace! our days are witnessing widespread hostility to A Memorial Mass has been scheduled here at Holy Innocents on Jews and Christians alike in many places, and Saturday, November 23rd at 12 Noon. much of the media turns its attention away. This is sometimes because there is an aversion to
READINGS FOR THIS SUNDAY: MALACHI 3:19-20 / PSALM 98:5-9 / 2 THES 3:7-12 / LUKE 21:5-19
with “ Making All Things New ”. On the Cardinal’s behalf, the Reid Group has helped identify eleven goals for the process. The complete list of these goals is available on the Archdiocese’s website (www.archny.org).
Each parish has a Core Team appointed to represent the parish in the process. At Holy Innocents, the Core Team members are Gene Fogarty, John Azzarelli, Mark Froeba and Eddy Toribio. Our Core Team attended a training session for “ Making All Things New ” at the end of September.
The Core Team is now required to conduct
an evaluation of “parish ministries” at Holy “Making All Things New ” Innocents based upon sixteen Criteria for Planning. The criteria are divided into four Cardinal Dolan has asked all of the parishes categories: of the Archdiocese to participate in his Making All parish planning process called “ (1) Sacramental Life of the Parish; Things New .” (2) Evangelization, Catechesis, Catholic Schools and Lifelong The name of the planning process comes Religious Education; from a passage in the Book of Revelation (3) Stewardship and Outreach; and (21.5). In that passage, St. John the (4) Effective Administration. Evangelist reports that, after a vision of the passing away of the first earth and first The complete list of these criteria is heaven, he hears a great voice out of heaven available on the Archdiocese’s website that tells him: (www.archny.org), and a summary appears on the back cover of this bulletin. God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes; and there shall be no As part of its evaluation of “parish more death, neither sorrow, nor ministries,” our Core Team is crying, neither shall there be any conducting a survey of all parishioners more pain: for the former things here at the Church of the Holy are passed away. And he that sat Innocents. Copies of the survey are upon the throne said, Behold, available at the back of Church. Please I make all things new. take a copy of the survey, complete it and return it to the parish office no later The Cardinal has engaged the services of than Tuesday, November 26 th . Thank The Reid Group, a consulting firm that you. specializes in parish planning to help him
November 20 ST. FELIX OF VALOIS Saints of the Week (1127 1212)
Hermit and co founder of the Trinitarians with St. John of November 17 Matha. He lived as a recluse at Cerfroid, France, and in 1198 received approval from the Holy See for the Order of the ST. HUGH OF LINCOLN Most Holy Trinity to ransoms captives from the Moors. Felix founded St. Mathburn Convent in Paris while in his seventies. Hugh of Lincoln was the son of William, Lord of Avalon. He He died in Cerfroid. was born at Avalon Castle in Burgundy and was raised and educated at a convent at Villard Benoit after his mother November 21 died when he was eight. He was professed at fifteen, ordained a deacon at nineteen, and was made prior of a PRESENTATION OF MARY monastery at Saint Maxim. While visiting the Grande Mary’s presentation was celebrated in Jerusalem in the sixth Chartreuse with his prior in 1160. It was then he decided to century. A church was built there in honor of this mystery. become a Carthusian there and was ordained. After ten The Eastern Church was more interested in the feast, but it years, he was named procurator and in 1175 became Abbot does appear in the West in the 11th century. As with Mary’s of the first Carthusian monastery in England. This had been birth, we read of Mary’s presentation in the temple only in built by King Henry II as part of his penance for the murder apocryphal literature. In what is recognized as an of Thomas Becket. unhistorical account, the Protoevangelium of James tells us His reputation for holiness and sanctity spread all over that Anna and Joachim offered Mary to God in the Temple England and attracted many to the monastery. He when she was three years old. admonished Henry for keeping Sees vacant to enrich the royal coffers. Income from the vacant Sees went to the royal November 22 treasury. He was then named bishop of the eighteen year old ST. CECILIA vacant See of Lincoln in 1186 a post he accepted only when (3rd century) ordered to do so by the prior of the Grande Chartreuse. Hugh quickly restored clerical discipline, labored to restore According to legend, Cecilia was a young Christian of high religion to the diocese, and became known for his wisdom rank betrothed to a Roman named Valerian. Through her and justice. influence Valerian was converted, and was martyred along with his brother. The legend about Cecilia’s death says that He was one of the leaders in denouncing the persecution of after being struck three times on the neck with a sword, she the Jews that swept England, 1190 91, repeatedly facing lived for three days, and asked the pope to convert her down armed mobs and making them release their victims. home into a church. Since the time of the Renaissance she He went on a diplomatic mission to France for King John in has usually been portrayed with a viola or a small organ. 1199, visiting the Grande Chartreuse, Cluny, and Citeaux, and returned from the trip in poor health. A few months November 23 later, while attending a national council in London, he was stricken and died two months later at the Old Temple in BLESSED MIGUEL AGUSTÍN PRO (1891 1927) London on November 16. He was canonized twenty years later, in 1220, the first Carthusian to be so honored. He is the best known English saint after Thomas Becket. ¡Viva Cristo Rey ! (Long live Christ the King )
November 18 were the last words Father ST. ROSE PHILIPPINE DUCHESNE Pro uttered before he was (1769 1852) executed for being a Catholic priest and serving his flock. St. Rose Philippine Duchesne was Born in Grenoble, France, in Born into a prosperous, 1769, Rose joined the Society of devout family in Guadalupe the Sacred Heart. In 1818, when de Zacatecas, he entered she was forty nine years old, the Jesuits in 1911 but Rose was sent to the United three years later fled to States. She founded a boarding Granada, Spain, because of school for daughters of pioneers religious persecution in Mexico. For his theological studies Pro was sent to Enghien, Belgium where the French Jesuits near St. Louis and opened the (also in exile) had their faculty of Theology. He was first free school west of the ordained in in 1925. Missouri. At the age of seventy one, she began a school for He immediately returned to Mexico, where he served a Church forced to go “underground.” He celebrated the Indians, who soon came to call Eucharist clandestinely and ministered the other sacraments her "the woman who is always to small groups of Catholics. praying". Her biographers have also stressed her courage in He and his brother Roberto were arrested on trumped up frontier conditions, her singlemindedness in pursuing her charges of attempting to assassinate Mexico’s president. dream of serving Native Americans, and her self acceptance. Roberto was spared but Miguel was sentenced to face a This holy servant of God was beatified by Pope Pius XII in firing squad on November 23, 1927. His funeral became a 1940 and canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1988. public demonstration of faith. He was beatified in 1988. 4
Mass Intentions for the Week of November 17, 2013
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17 – THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 10:30 – Holy Souls in Purgatory 12:30 – Edward Freel (RIP) by Glen & Pam O’Connor
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18 – WEEKDAY, The Dedication of the Basilicas
of Sts. Peter and Paul, Apostles; St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, virgin
7:30 Catherine Dorothy Devito (RIP) by Noël Stazko 12:15 – Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (RIP) 6:00 Susan K. Long (RIP) by Karen Kenny The Sanctuary TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 – WEEKDAY 7:30 – Paula Ubiles (RIP) Lamp is 12:15 – Anthony Nespoli (RIP) by daughter Bernadette Dedicated for 6:00 – Justina Gojdanić (RIP Anniversary of Death) by son Nicholas Arthur Joseph WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 – WEEKDAY 7:30 – Vincenza Moscaritolo (RIP) by Frances 12:15 Giovanna & Emmanuel Haber (RIP) by daughters Joanne and Elizabeth 6:00 Oscar Weinreb (RIP) by Barbara Wells
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21 – Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary 7:30 Alexandre Araujo (RIP) by wife Maria 12:15 – Catherine O’Connor and Halina & Jusuf Skrijelj (RIP) by Johanna 6:00 – Alexandrena Augustus & Family and Christiana Noël (RIP) by Valerie Augustus
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 – St. Cecilia, Virgin & Martyr 7:30 – Francisco Delgado (RIP) by Bianca 12:15 Carmen Davila (RIP) by Gerard Coello 6:00 Assuncion D. Panis (RIP Anniversary of Death) by niece Elenor Bread & Wine are Offered SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 – WEEKDAY, St. Clement I, Pope & Martyr; St. Columban, Abbot; Blessed Miguel Agustin Pro, Priest & Martyr by the family of Holy Innocents (12 Noon Mass is discontinued except on the Second Saturdays for 2000 Hail Marys, and also on other special occasions and anniversaries) 12 Noon Donald V. S. Hunter (RIP 10/28/2013) 1:00 – H. James Kenny, Jr. (RIP) by Karen Kenny 4:00 – Sarah O’Neill (RIP) by daughter Mary
Due to the trimmed Mass schedule (see page 1), following Masses could not be celebrated at Holy Innocents on the originally-scheduled dates . They have been re- scheduled at St. Michael’s Church (424 West 34th Street, between 9th & 10th Aves; phone 212-563-2575) on the dates & times listed below :
November 5, 7:25 am – For All Dear Faithful Departed by Frank & Sandra Nestor November 6, 7:25 am – Ingrid & Matthew Gerber (Living - for Blessings) November 7, 7:25 am – Luisa, Victoria, Antonio and Conrado Cruz (RIP) November 8, 7:25 am – Celia, James and Jim O’Connor (RIP) by Johanna November 8, 12:10 pm – Special Intention of Anna Karapallil The Eternal November 11, 7:25 am – Ratna Christal Bohmart ( RIP – Unborn Child) by mother Nini November 13, 12:10 pm – Lou Delviccho (RIP) by Donna Degnan Flame is November 15, 12:10 pm – Ray Fanning (RIP) by Gerard Coello Dedicated for November 16, 5:00 pm – Hope Marie Skodacek (RIP – Unborn Child) by grandma the family of November 20, 12:10 pm – Michalena, Kasimar and Fr. Vito Pupin (RIP) by Johanna O'Connor Holy Innocents November 23, 5:00 pm – In Thanksgiving by Michael Wilkinson November 27, 12:10 pm – Ramroop family (RIP) by Donald Weber November 30, 5:00 pm – Fannie Gumbinger (RIP) by Angela Cheung 5 PARISH BULLETIN BOAR D
Make a Joyful Noise 2000 Hail Marys Unto the Lord before the Blessed Sacrament Our church needs volunteer musicians to perform in our mini choir to worship God on Vigils and Sundays. Anyone SECOND SATURDAY interested in serving, please contact Fr. Louis Van Thanh OF EVERY MONTH at [email protected] or 845-541-8406 December 14, 2013
May God Bless you! - Fr. Louis 6:15 am — Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & 20 Decades of Pro Life Rosary for the Unborn RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION CLASSES 8:00 am — 2000 Hail Marys — 20 petitions 12 Noon — Mass in Honor of Blessed Virgin Mary 2:30 pm — Confessions You can now join our Adult Religious Instruction 3 pm — Divine Mercy Chaplet, Litany of the Passion Classes (RCIA) which meet on Tuesdays at 3:50 pm — Benediction 4:00 pm — Vigil Mass for Sunday 5:30pm. Those who are not Baptized and yet interested in exploring Catholic faith; those Devotees are advised to bring their personal petitions to be baptized but have not received the Sacraments prayed over during the vigil. This is a powerful devotion that baptized but have not received the Sacraments is pleasing to God, because you are not only praying for your of Communion, Confession and Confirmation; own petitions, but are also praying for other people and all All are welcomed to join these classes . the problems in the world. Lunch will be provided. (To seek entrance in the evening, after 6pm, The Cenacle World Prayer Group: 718 381 4419 please ring the bell at the rectory door from the Website: www.cenacleworldprayergroup.com street) E mail: [email protected]
Instructor: Fr. Louis M. Van Thanh, D. Min. If interested, please contact Fr. Louis at Help for Those Experiencing 212212212-212 ---279279279----58615861 x 217 / 845845----541541541----84068406 a Crisis Pregnancy
If you or someone you know is THANKSGIVING PRAYER experiencing a crisis pregnancy and would like assistance call: This Thanksgiving let those of us who have The Sisters of Life Visitation much and those who have little gather at the Mission to pregnant women at welcoming table of the Lord. 877 777 1277 or 212 737 0221. At this blessed feast, may rich and poor alike The Sisters provide practical help and resources for remember that we are called to serve on another and to walk together in God's any woman in need as well as emotional support gracious world. and spiritual counsel. Visit www.sistersoflife.org for more info. With thankful hearts we praise our God who like a loving parent denies us no good thing. Amen. Help is also available from Catholic Guardian Society and Home Bureau Hotline 1 800 592 HELP. The CHB is an affiliated agency of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York. THANKSGIVING PARTY Fr. Jim Goode, OFM, Friday, Nov. 22nd at Holy Innocents 222-2---55 pm
in Isaiah Hall beneath the church Mass & Homily Thursdays at 12:15pm for Parishioners, Isaiah Hall visitors and all church friends. 6
The Shrine to the Unborn Blessed by Cardinal O’Connor on December 28, 1993 PRAYER TO CHRIST UNBORN
Dear Lord Jesus in the womb of Blessed Virgin Mary, before your birth You filled the unborn
Baptist with the joy of the Holy Spirit. Inspire us to see You in every unborn child. Grant us the perseverance to defend vulnerable human life from abortion, abandonment,
The Shrine is dedicated in Memory of the Children experimentation, and all violations. Who Have Died Unborn Fill us with reverence for the moment of your We invite you to name your child(ren) Incarnation in Nazareth when the Word became and provide the opportunity to have flesh. Amen. your baby's name inscribed in our “ Book of Life ".
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Our Traditional Latin Mass Schedule: Sundays 10:30 a.m. Weekdays 6:00 p.m. Saturdays 1:00 p.m. If you are suffering from the pain of a past abortion, know that there is hope and healing. Daily Mass propers can be found online at: abortion, know that there is hope and healing. virgomaterdie.com Contact the Sisters of Life at 866866----575575575----00750075 or ee----mailmail [email protected]
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Excerpts from Cardinal Dolan’s What came through in these responses is that people are proud that their archdiocese does all of this, and Pastoral Letter on they want to do it even better. This is a big part of ‘Making All Things New’ the why of pastoral planning, and supports the four significant pastoral themes that have emerged and are Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: integrated into Making All Things New: Discipleship, Evangelization, Witness, and Ministry. As I am confident you have heard, since we have been preparing for this the last five years, the As we move forward now with our new Holy Father, Archdiocese of New York is now formally embarking Pope Francis, we must all recognize that the virtue of on our pastoral planning process, Making All Things prudence requires that we once again appropriately New, and we approach this process in a spirit plan for our future; Jesus exhorts us to be faithful and of faith, hope, and love. I have great faith in God, and focused in our discipleship. The biblical virtue of in all God’s people throughout the 10 counties and 368 stewardship requires us to wisely use our time, talent, treasures. parishes of this archdiocese. I have deep hope in what we can accomplish together with God’s grace as we I fear that, at present, we are not using our resources confidently plan our future as a Catholic family. And, as well as we could. For instance: I love Jesus, His Church, and you, the splendid people of this historic archdiocese. Manhattan and the Bronx are particularly saturated with parishes. Of our 368 parishes, 84 are in As we begin this process, I am reminded that “without Manhattan, with an additional 5 mission churches. a vision the people will perish” (Proverbs 29:18). When That’s very nearly 25 percent of the total number of I visit parishes and talk with priests, deacons, religious parishes in the archdiocese—serving only about 10-12 women and men, and our dedicated lay people, one percent of our Catholic population. There are 29 challenging question keeps emerging—how can we parishes in the South Manhattan Vicariate alone—all strengthen our parish life, and help more Catholic concentrated on 14th Street or below! Having this people grow in their faith? I believe that Making All large number of parishes certainly made sense when Things New will help us respond to this question in they were established, mostly in the mid-19th and many important ways. early 20th centuries. They no longer make sense now in the 21st century and on into the future. First of all, God’s people here in New York have told us their needs. Bishop Dennis Sullivan and his We devote a lopsided amount of money to maintaining exploratory committee spent a year traveling all over parishes and buildings we no longer need. We don’t the archdiocese listening to our people. You sure have the finances to annually give $40 million to spoke up, and what you said is that you: support unneeded parishes; and secondly, best • love your parishes, and want them stronger, more practices and years of pastoral experience tell us that stable and alive; churches which are 10 to 20 percent full do not usually • love our priests, deacons, religious women and men, lead to meaningful and uplifting liturgies where we are and lay leaders, hope for more, and are eager to share drawn to give praise and thanks to our loving God. in leadership and service in the Church; While there is general agreement around the • want a Church where people are welcomed, and Archdiocese that pastoral planning is both necessary Sunday Mass is celebrated with reverence, joy, a solid and good, and agreement that decisions about parish homily, and full participation; mergers and closures should only be made after • want intense religious education and faith formation, careful study, the most common question that arises not just for children, but for our teens, young adults, is: “What criteria will be used to assess the current and adults; state of the parishes?” Inherent in the question is the • want our schools not just to survive but to flourish; sense that while painful decisions may have to be • want attention to marriage and family; made, they should be based on a clear set of specific • want a Church embracing our Latino, African, criteria, universally applied. Four areas were identified Caribbean, and Asian newcomers; as the most useful markers in determining the vitality • want a Church vigorous in the promotion of the of a parish: Sacramental Life, Evangelization and culture of life, social justice, and care for the poor, Catechesis, Stewardship and Outreach, and Effective sick, vulnerable, unborn, immigrants, and our elders; Administration. • want a Church purified, positive, and transparent; • want a Church much better equipped in communications and technology; • want a Church, not a museum; • want, in the words of our Holy Father, a Church not Full text of Cardinal Dolan’s letter may be read online at: confined to the sacristy, but out on the streets! http://cny.org/stories/Pastoral-Letter-on-Making-All-Things-New,10021