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OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL PARISH OFFICE (212) 289-1742 FAX (646) 669-7811 E-MAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.OLGCSTM.org

ST. THOMAS MORE PARISH OFFICE (212) 876-7718 FAX (212) 831-5756 E-MAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.OLGCSTM.org

January 1st, 2017 SUNDAY MASS SCHEDULE - OLGC Saturday Evening: 5:30 p.m. Sunday Morning: 9:00 a.m. Rev. Kevin V. Madigan, Pastor 10:15 a.m.- Spanish Mass Msgr. Patrick McCahill, Deaf Ministry 11:30 a.m. - Choral Mass Sunday Evening: 6:00 p.m. Rev. Fernando Caindec, Parochial Vicar Rev. Maximo Villanueva, Parochial Vicar SUNDAY MASS SCHEDULE - STM Saturday Evening: 5:45 p.m. STAFF - OLGC Sunday Morning: 8:30 a.m. Email: [email protected] 10:00 a.m. - Family Mass Joan Barton, Director of Music Sunday Afternoon: 12:00 p.m. - Choral Mass Sunday Evening: 5:45 p.m. Marcelle Devine, Coordinator of Religious Ed. Christopher Gillespie, Dir. Liturgical Music Ed. WEEKDAY MASSES - OLGC Monday thru Friday: 9:00 am and 6:00 pm STAFF - STM Saturday: 9:00 am and 12:00 pm

James Siranovich, Interim Director of Music WEEKDAY MASSES - STM [email protected] Monday thru Friday: 8:00 am and 12:15 pm Edward Litcher, Business Manager Saturday: 8:00 am and 12:15 pm

[email protected] CONFESSIONS - OLGC Sharon McKenna, Sacristan Monday thru Friday - 5:45 pm Alex Miller, Director of Parish Programs Saturday 4:30 – 5:15 pm [email protected] CONFESSIONS - STM Margaret Peet, Development Monday thru Friday 12:00 pm - 12:10 pm (before Mass) PARISH TRUSTEES Saturday 5:00 – 5:30 pm Christopher Baldwin BAPTISM Paul Saunders OLGC - 12:30 pm on Sunday STM - 1:00 pm on Sunday PARISH COUNCIL PRESIDENT (Arrangements must be made six weeks in advance)

Alicia Damley MARRIAGE Arrangements should be made at least six months prior FINANCE COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSON to the wedding

Michael Poulos VISITS TO HOMEBOUND PARISHIONERS Our clergy are happy to visit. Call the parish office to arrange. Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel - St. Thomas More January 1st, 2017 Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God Today is the celebration of Mary as the Mother of God (in Greek, , literally meaning “God-bearer”). The official church recognition of Mary as Theotokos dates back to the in AD 431. While there exist today many Marian titles, church historians consider Theotokos to be the oldest title attributed to Mary. It took the early church centuries to develop the Mariology that we know today. In fact, outside of the Gospels (and even here, largely restricted to the infancy narratives of Matthew and Luke), most of the New Testament authors do not discuss Mary, focusing rather on her son, Jesus Christ.

The second reading from Paul’s Letter to the Galatians is a good example of this. Galatians 4:4, part of today’s reading, contains the only Pauline reference to the mother of Jesus, noting, “When the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman.” Paul mentions “born of a woman” (Mary) in relation to defining Jesus as the Son of God and the Gentiles’ status as “heir” to the same promises made to Israel. Obviously, without Mary, Jesus would not have been born. Yet Paul’s focus is exclusively Christological.

Today’s reading from Luke’s infancy narrative offers us some glimpses into the person of Mary and her worldview. In fact, Luke provides us with three insights into Mary. First, with the visit of the shepherds and their message to and Mary, we learn that God communicated to Mary through other people in her life. In this case, the shepherds confirmed the message Mary originally received from the at the annunciation (Lk 1:26-38): Mary gave birth to the Messiah, the Son of God. Second, Luke tells us that “Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart.” She was a young woman of deep prayer and contemplation. Mary integrated her experience of the divine with both her heart and her mind. Third, Mary was an observant Jew. She understood herself and new family through Jewish lens. Luke tells us that Jesus received “circumcision” and was “named” on the eighth day—precepts of the Mosaic law. Adapted from Liturgical Publications Inc, Connect! Uniting Word & World, Dr. J. Scholz

WEEKDAY BIBLE READINGS The LORD bless you and keep you! Sun.: Nm 6:22-27/Gal 4:4-7/Lk 2:16-21 Mon.: 1 Jn 2:22-28/Jn 1:19-28 The LORD let his face shine upon Tues.: 1 Jn 2:29—3:6/Jn 1:29-34 Wed.: 1 Jn 3:7-10/Jn 1:35-42 you, and be gracious to you! Thur.: 1 Jn 3:11-21/Jn 1:43-51 Fri.: 1 Jn 5:5-13/Mk 1:7-11 The LORD look upon you kindly and Sat.: 1 Jn 5:14-21/Jn 2:1-11 give you peace! Please Note: (Numbers 6:24-26) Parish Offices will be closed on Monday, January 2nd. Religious Art Calendars can now be picked- Have you tried FORMED? up in the Parish Office. FORMED.org offers free Catholic eBooks and Films from Ignatius Press, Scripture-Study series, Preparing for Baptism and numerous video- and audio series on topics like Preparation meetings are held on the first Tuesday Archeology in the Holy Land, forgiveness, the , the creed, and more! evening of the month at 7:00PM in the OLGC Parish Hall. Baptisms take place on Sundays at To register, go to www.FORMED.org , enter the 12:30PM (OLGC) and 1:00PM (STM). Please Parish Access Code XNGRTM (all caps) and your contact the Parish Office to register. email address. Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel Who is saying Mass this Sunday? MASS INTENTIONS AND FEAST DAYS Sat 5:30 pm Fr. Fernando AT OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL JANUARY 1 – JANUARY 7 Sun 9:00 am Fr. Oliver Mon. Sts. Basil & of Sun 10:15 am Fr. Sheehan 9:00 Kitson Family (D) Sun 11:30 am Msgr. McCahill 6:00 Christmas Novena Sun 6:00 pm Fr. Madigan Tues. January 3 Most Holy Name of Jesus 9:00 Giovanni (John) Rocchio (L) Lector/EM Mass Schedule 6:00 Joyce Lang (L) & Families (D)

Wed. January 4 St. January 1 Lector EM 9:00 Marianne T. Bogunovich (D) Sat 5:30 pm Tony Johnson Sazs Sexigs 6:00 Mary Louise Gannon (D) Sun 9:00 am Louisa Martin Marie Nonni Thurs. January 5 St. John Neumann Sun 10:15 am 9:00 Kathleen Donnelly & Families (D) Sun 11:30 am Gladys Cruz Joe McLaughlin 6:00 Joseph Menchaca (L) Sun 6:00 pm Ryan Richard Carol Hopkins Fri. January 6 St. André Bessette 9:00 Marianne T. Bogunovich (D) January 8 Lector EM 6:00 St. for the Spiritual Guidance of All Priests Sat 5:30 pm Tony Johnson MaryAnn Batory Sat. January 7 St. Raymond of Penyafort Sun 9:00 am Terri O’Connor Sylvia Morales 9:00 Thanksgiving Sun 10:15 am 12:00 Carmen Marulanda (D) Vigil Sun 11:30 am Jamie Johnson TBD 5:30pm Purgatorial Mass Sun 6:00 pm Brian Daley Gladys Cruz Please remember the sick, especially PURGATORIAL SOCIETY MASS Claudia Apicella, George Blanchfield, Trent Gough, Please join us in remembering the Gourin Family, Mary Ellen Nugent Lee, Sr. Hector Arroyo Jr. Helen Klimek, Frank Meade, Socorro Muriel, Liz Jenny Fennell Riker, Alix & Wilson Stearns. William Powers William Rogers And all the faithfully departed, Robert "Bob" Winnemore, Esq especially Andrea Camacho, Jenny Fennell, Saturday, January 7th at the 5:30 Mass in the Lucielle Frerich, and Sr. Cecelia Haley, SC, OLGC Upper Church. that they may see God. Please remember to support the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in To add a name or to keep a name on the active list, 2017 so that together we can please contact the rectory at the beginning of each continue to bring comfort and month. peace to our brothers and sisters who are poor and suffering. May Religious Education at OLGC the peace and joy of the New Year be yours! Please note the following dates: The OLGC Conference of the SVDP can be Friday classes will resume on January 6th. contacted through the rectory or via email at Sunday classes will resume on January 8th. [email protected] . EVENTS AT EVENTS AT OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL ST. THOMAS MORE DATE EVENT TIME DATE EVENT TIME 1/1 NEW YEAR’S DAY 1/1 NEW YEAR’S DAY AA Meeting 3pm Family Coffee Hour 11am 1/2 OFFICE CLOSED 1/2 OFFICE CLOSED Blue Army Prayer Group After 9am Mass AA meeting will be held. 1/3 Baptismal Prep 7pm 1/3 First Grade Religious Ed 5pm 1/4 Senior Bingo 12:30pm NO Leisure Club Lunch 1/4-5 Pop-up Flea Market 11am-4pm 1/4 Christian Meditation 6pm 1/6 Bilingual Religious Ed Resumes 7pm 1/5 Second Grade Religious Ed 5pm All-Night Vigil 8pm-5am Healing Mass 7pm 1/7 Saturday Morning Breakfast 7 - 8:30am 1/6 First Friday Adoration After 12:15 Mass 1/8 Religious Ed Resumes 10am Note: AA Meetings are held on Monday, Tuesday, AA Meeting 3pm Thursday, and Friday evenings at 6:30pm in the Rooted in Jesus Christ 4:30pm Chelsea Room.

Monthly All-Night Vigil of Prayer 2017 New York Encounter “Reality Has Never Betrayed Me” before Our Lord in the Eucharist January 13-15, Metropolitan Pavilion Where: Chapel of Our Lady of Good Counsel 125 West 18th Street th th When: Friday, January 6 -Saturday January 7 The Encounter is a three-day, FREE, cultural (Every First Friday of the Month) event organized by Communion and Liberation, 8:00-9:00pm Confession consisting of panel discussions, artistic 9:00pm Mass performances and unique exhibits. Featuring 9:30pm-5:00am Eucharistic Adoration and Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Brooks (New York Personal Prayer Times), Matt Malone, S.J. (America Magazine), 5:00am Closing Mass Rusty Reno (First Things), and Prof. Joseph Weiler (NYU), and many more, speaking on an array of Drop in at any point between 8:00 pm and 5:00 am dynamic topics from politics and education, to and keep watch with Christ a while. , the refugee crisis, food we eat, photography,

Rooted in Jesus Christ Resumes and more. 28 events in all. The full program can be found at http://www.newyorkencounter.org . No Every Sunday, 4:30pm in the Rectory of OLGC. registration is required. Our Parish’s ongoing adult formation community invites all adults to explore ways to become March for Life in Washington, D.C. “intentional” disciples of Jesus Christ. Friday, January 27, 2017 Contacts: Greg D’Uva at [email protected] Join us on pilgrimage to Washington, D.C. as we or Henry Artis at [email protected]. gather with thousands of people from throughout our nation to pray and publicly witness to the BENEFIT CONCERT: THE PRIESTS sanctity of human life on the anniversary of the To benefit the Benedictine of Kylemore tragic Roe v. Wade decision. A Manhattan bus, Abbey, County Galway, Ireland sponsored by the Archdiocesan Family Life/Respect Saturday, January 28th, 8:00PM Life Office will be leaving from Sacred Heart of St. John Nepomucene Church (411 E 66th St.) Jesus Church, 457 West 51st St. (between 9th & 10th General Admission: $75 Ave), New York, NY 10019. Mass 6:15am/ depart Preferred Seating & After-party: $150 7:00am sharp. Cost for the trip is $50, with check For tickets: www.irishap.org/the-priests-concert . made payable to “Sisters of Life.” If you are not Ticket sales, sponsorships and gifts will go toward able to make the trip, please consider making a the interior of the new monastery. donation. For further info and to register call Sr. For more info: www.friendsofKylemoreabbey.com . Shirley at (212) 371-1011 x3195 or email [email protected] . Church of St. Thomas More

Who is saying Mass this Sunday? MASS INTENTIONS AND FEAST DAYS Sat 5:45 pm Fr. Maximo AT ST. THOMAS MORE Sun 8:30 am Fr. Gibbons JANUARY 1 – JANUARY 7 Mon. January 2 Sts. Basil & Gregory of Nazianzus Sun 10:00 am Fr. Gibbons 8:00 Victoria Ghilaga (D) Sun 12:00 pm Fr. Maximo *12:15 Anthony Declemente (D) Sun 5:45 pm Fr. Fernando Tues. January 3 Most Holy Name of Jesus

Lector/EM Mass Schedule 8:00 Joseph T. Murphy (L) *12:15 Melinda Giardino (D) January 1 Lector EM Wed. January 4 St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Sat 5:45 pm The Rosses Rob Guida 8:00 John Dana Smith (D) Sun 8:30 am TBD Pat Lazio *12:15 Gregory Dooley (D) Sun 10:00 am Boorady Family TBD Thurs. January 5 St. John Neumann Sun 12:00 pm Bob Burke C. Stonbely 8:00 Deceased Members of the Sun 5:45 pm Chris Baldwin Julia Shea Kearney & Fanning Families *12:15 Thomas Connelly (D) January 8 Lector EM Fri. January 6 St. André Bessette Sat 5:45 pm Nick Farnham Greg Gorra 8:00 Marilyn Keough (D) Sun 8:30 am Louisa Martin TBD *12:15 Rosama Sebastian (L) Sun 10:00 am Barry Family M.E. Bianco Sat. January 7 St. Raymond of Penyafort Sun 12:00 pm Nilsa Santiago TBD 8:00 Claude Germain (D) Sun 5:45 pm Rory Kelleher Sharon McKenna *12:15 Stanley Lenkiewicz (D) Vigil 5:45 Paddy Connell (D) Religious Education at STM *Rosary prayed after 12:15pm Mass Please note the following dates: Tuesday classes will resume on January 3rd. We Extend Our Thanks Thursday classes will resume on January 5th. To Elizabeth Williams for hosting this Sunday's coffee hour.

Healing Mass to the Sacred Heart This weekly gathering is hosted by a parishioner Thursday, January 5th, 7:00pm volunteer who brings a sweet treat of their choice St Thomas More. (e.g. donuts, cookies, pastries). Everything else is found in the Rochester Room, including This warm experience is a time when we can pray instructions! after Mass with a minister for facing and healing our wounds with Lord, Who cares about our stuff! We’ve begun host sign-ups for 2017! Sign-up here: These wounds may be physical, emotional, financial http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090a48a4ad2baa and/or and spiritual. We pray privately with the ff2-winterspring . Or visit www.olgcstm.org . Sacred Heart, the Blessed Mother, and the saints… about our stuff ! First-Friday Adoration For more info, please call 718-289-5954. A quiet period of prayer and contemplation before the Blessed will follow the 12:15pm Mass at St. Thomas More on January 6th .