Thirty-Second Sunday

NOVEMBER 7, 2010 Best Wishes, Fr. Vincent DeLucia, OP! Fr. Vincent DeLucia, OP has been elected the THIRTY-SECOND SUNDAY Prior of St. Mary's Dominican Priory at Yale in IN ORDINARY TIME New Haven. He will be leaving us on 2 Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14/2 Thessalonians 2:16—3:5/Luke November 9. Our pastor, Fr. John McGuire, OP, has been 20:27-38 or 20:27, 34-38 appointed interim director of the Catholic Center at NYU. The Parish thanks Fr. Vincent for his many years of service to St. “Brothers and sisters: May our Lord Joseph's and wishes him the best as he moves back to his Jesus Christ himself and God our native New Haven. Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting encouragement and good hope through his grace, encourage your hearts and strengthen them in every th good deed and word… but the Lord is The 12 annual Legends of the Village faithful; he will strengthen you and award honors our Fr. John McGuire, O.P. guard you from the evil one.” along with the Honorable Ed Koch, and Bradford Perkins on Monday, Nov. 8th Legends of the Village benefits VillageCare’s array of programs Life is a gift. How we live it depends that promote better health and well being of older adults and upon the free will God has given us. When we consider all the persons living with HIV/AIDS. For more info, call 212 337 5743. gifts we have received, life, health, faith, family, gifts great and small, we are grateful. Gifts we have received are to be used for the common good.

The word of God today informs us of a gift we have received and are asked to give away. It is not costly, not precious. It Jewish, Christian and Muslim Perspectives: Fall McGinley Lecture, was not earned, but showered upon us. There is someone Fordham University waiting for and in need of this gift. Its name is encouragement. Rev. Patrick J. Ryan, S.J., the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of How many people around us need to hear an encouraging Religion and Society at Fordham University, will deliver his Fall word. Circumstances of life find people weighed down with McGinley lecture, “Prophetic Faith and the Critique of Tradition: sickness, loss of work, a difficult home situation, addictions of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives,” on Monday evening, every sort. For many the first step may be a simple presence, a November 15 at 6 p.m. in the 12th-floor Lounge in the Lowenstein helping hand, and the words “I understand.’ Center at the Lincoln Center Campus in Manhattan. Also with Rabbi Like a smile it is a gift that is offered, yet is not lost but still Daniel Polish, Ph.D., of Congregation Shir Chadash, Poughkeepsie and kept. It has been given to us as a grace and as we utilize it, we Professor Amir Hussein, Ph.D. of Loyola Marymount University in Los too become stronger in every good deed and word. The classic Angeles. song ‘Home on the Range’ reminds us there is never heard a discouraging word when we as people of faith encourage one The lecture is free and open to the public. Contact: (718) 817-4745 or e- another. mail [email protected]. HIS WORD TODAY by Rev. William J. Reilly

Theology-on-Tap NYC On Tuesday, November 9th, please come to Theology on Tap-NYC (a young adult apostolate for those Vespers with Archbishop Timothy Dolan at in their 20s, 30s, and early 40s) presents "The Battle of 6:30 PM in St. Joseph’s Greenwich Village Prayer…How to Win It!" on November 15, 2010 at Church. Archbishop Dolan will give a homily Slattery's Midtown Pub, 8 East 36th Street between Madison on Dorothy Day, someone for whom he has a and 5th Avenues at 7pm-9pm. Fr John Bartunek, LC, author special place in his heart. This timely Vespers of The Better Part and The Guide to the Passion, will talk to us service in the church where she often prayed about the struggles we encounter when we pray and meditate falls the day after Dorothy’s birthday and just weeks before and how do we enter into a simple conversation with God. the 30th anniversary of her death on November 29th. It will Please visit us at www.totnyc.org include music by some of the best professionals St. Joseph’s has to offer. A reception will follow in St. Joseph’s school auditorium. If you can let us know you’re coming, we’ll be For an update on Fr. Tom's Kids in Kisumu, more likely to have the right amount of refreshments. Contact Kenya, please click the Fr. Tom's Kids logo on Pax Christi Metro New York at [email protected] or 212- the St. Joseph's website. Thank you for your 420-0250. interest and generosity! SATURDAY, November 6 Book Signing by Joe Caldwell 3 Jn 5-8/Lk 18:1-8 12:10 PM On November 9, St. Joesph’s Parishoner and soup kitchen 5:30 PM Teresa Rogers SUNDAY, November 7 volunteer, Joe Caldwell will read from the recently published 9:00 AM Ruth Hill book of his comic trillogy “The Pig Goes to Hog Heaven.” 11:30AM Eileen Buckley 6:00 PM Dorothy Southwell The event will take place at the Three Lives Bookstore, 154 MONDAY, November 8 th Ti 1:1-9/Lk 17:1-6 West 10 Street at 7pm. 12:10 PM Dobong Tiro 5:30 PM Mary Duffy (living) Please come out and support a fellow parishoner! TUESDAY, November 9 Ez 47:1-2, 8-9, 12/1 Cor 3:9c-11, 16-17/Jn 2:13-22 Dedication of the Lateran Bascilica in Rome 12:10 PM Italo, Elena & Ephrim Parmigiani 5:30 PM Valentine Camurati WEDNESDAY, November 10 Ti 3:1-7/Lk 17:11-19 St. Leo the Great, pope and doctor Covenant House’s 20th Annual Candlelight Vigil 12:10 PM Millie Marzulla On November 16, 2010 Covenant House International, the 5:30 PM Florence Newbury largest privately-funded agency in the Americas that THURSDAY, November 11 provides food, shelter, immediate crisis care, and an array Phlm 7-20/Lk 17:20-25 St. Martin of Tours, bishop of other important services to homeless, throwaway, and runaway 12:10 PM Jeremiah W. O’Connor Jr. kids, will hold its 20th Annual Candlelight Vigil. 5:30 PM Gerard O’Malley The Vigil will transform Times Square into a beacon of hope and FRIDAY, November 12 2 Jn 4-9/Lk 17:26-37 St. Josephat, bishop and martyr solidarity for all homeless youth. Covenant House kids and hundreds 12:10 PM Sean O’Connor of their advocates will march from Covenant House’s New York 5:30 PM shelter to Times Square and send a simultaneous message in support SATURDAY, November 13 of thousands of homeless youth across the U.S. who are just trying to 3 Jn 5-8/Lk 18:1-8 St. Francis Xavier Cabrini, virgin survive on their own, one night at a time. 12:10 PM 5:30 PM Marie Mazza November 16, 2010 @ 5:30 PM Covenant House New York, 41st Street &10th Avenue VIGIL @ 6:00 PM Military Island, Broadway between 43rd And MONTHLY PARISH ACTIVITIES Sunday 44th Streets Children’s Religious 10:00 AM Casserly Studies 10:00 AM Scripture Discussion Library The Epiphany Catholic Young Adults and the Cathedral of St Patrick 2:30 PM Roman Forum Casserly Young Adults invite you to a screening of the film, "Nine Days That Lectures 7:00 PM Casserly/ Changed the World." Grad Law Rectory This documentary film, produced by Gingrich Productions, tells the Monday remarkable true story of Pope John Paul II’s pilgrimage to his native 6:30 PM Centering Prayer Church YACHT Club for Casserly/L 7:00 PM Poland from June 2-9, 1979. This visit alone did indeed change the Young Adults ibrary world, and initiated the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, but it Tuesday th also changed the spiritual culture of the world for the 20 century! 7:00 PM Aquinas Circle of Casserly/L Undergraduates ibrary We hope you will join us for this screening and learn more about our Wednesday beloved JPII, whose presence and love is still felt by many today! 6:30 PM Korean Catholic Casserly/L Students ibrary When: Saturday, November 13, 2010 Thursday 6:30 PM 1st /mo Pax Christi Bd Mtg PCMNY Time: Doors open at 7pm and the film begin at 7:30pm. Film will 7:00 PM Casserly/L Newman Club end around 9pm. ibrary Where: Epiphany Catholic Church Parish Hall, Second Avenue Friday between 22nd and 21st Streets. Novena/ Sacred 6:00 PM 1st/mo Church Cost: Free Heart Note: This attendance is on a first come, first serve basis 6:15 PM St. Egidio Prayer Church Saturday 10:00-3:00 PM Soup Kitchen Casserly 12:30 PM 1st/mo Blessing of the Sick Church Alcoholics 6:00 PM Caserly Anonymous The collection for October 31 was $4,660. We appreciate your generosity. We encourage you to enroll via the ParishPay website https://www.parishpay.com/. Select the St Joseph West Village link. Use the paperless way to help our ministry. FEAST DAYS, SCRIPTURE CITATIONS AND SPECIAL INTENTIONS FOR THIS WEEK