Church of St. Theresa A Caring Community Reaching Out To One Another in Christ 2855 St. Theresa Avenue, Bronx, New York

SUNDAY MASSES Saturday at 5:00pm, Sunday at 7:30am, 9:00am(Italian), 10:30am(Family ) 12:15pm , 1:30PM(Spanish) & 5:00pm

WEEKDAY MASSES Monday thru Saturday 8:00am & 9:00am

DEVOTIONS Miraculous Medal & St. Theresa Novenas after Monday morning Masses St. Anthony Novena after Tuesday morning Masses.

Thursday 12 Noon Mass & Eucharistic Adoration

Exposition & Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament First Friday 7:30pm to 8:30pm followed by silent adoration until 9:00pm. CONFESSION Saturdays from 4:00pm to 5:00pm and by appointment

BAPTISMS Baptisms take place most Sundays after the 1:30pm Mass. We ask parents to attend the Baptism preparation meeting. Register at the Rectory for the meeting. The date of the Baptism will be discussed at the Baptism meeting.

MARRIAGES Call the Rectory at least six months in advance of the wedding date to make an appointment with parish clergy.

Rev. Msgr. Thomas Derivan, Rev. Joseph Ligory, Parochial Vicar Mrs. Josephine Fanelli, Principal Rev. Thomas D’Angelo, In Residence Mrs. Marie McCarrick, Dir. of Religious Education Msgr. Neil Graham, Retired, In Residence Dr. Liya Petrides, Music Director Rev. Robert Imbelli, Weekend Associate Deacon Anthony P. Cassaneto

RECTORY: 718-892-1900/1901 WEBSITE: www.sttheresachurchbronx.org SCHOOL: 718-792-3688 FAX: 718-892-1146 E-MAIL: [email protected] RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: 718-792-8434 CHURCH OF S T. T HERESA , B RONX

FROM THE DESK OF FATHER DERIVAN: THE PASTORAL REPORT

Dear Parishioners,

Today’s Feast of the Epiphany celebrates the Magi giving their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to the Newborn Savior. Several years ago, our retired Pope Benedict XVI said, “We are all pilgrims in the footsteps of the Magi.” We do not bring gold, frankincense and myrrh to the Lord Jesus. Instead, we bring Him even more precious gifts—the gift of our faith, the gift of our hope and trust in Him, and the gift of our love which shows itself in faithful service. And the beautiful thing is that the Lord gives us His gifts, even as we present our gifts to Him. And of course, His gifts are far more precious than ours. They are the gifts that come from the Sacred Heart of the Son of God. What we do as individual Catholics, we do also as members of the Church. We bring to the Lord our gifts of faith, hope and love as members of St. Theresa’s Parish and the Lord gives us so many gifts in return. Each year, on this Feast of the Epiphany, the Feast of Gifts, I like to give you a Pastoral Report about our parish. Several weeks ago I gave you the Financial Report, which, of course, is important. But I believe this Pastoral Report is even more important. It tells us how much the Lord has given to us from His wonderful love. Let us look at the gifts which the Lord has given our parish during the past year: 1. The Lord gives us the gift of the sacraments. As Catholic people, we know that the sacraments are central to our lives: * During the past year, 96 persons were baptized. Four adults were baptized at the Easter Vigil Mass in our RCIA program under the direction of Mrs. McCarrick and Father Joseph. * 76 children in our school and in our CCD Program received First Holy Communion. Bishop Gerald Walsh, Auxiliary Bishop of New York, confirmed 75 young people likewise from our school and CCD Program. * 32 marriages were solemnized. Also three adults received Confirmation at the Easter Vigil Mass. * 87 funerals were offered for our departed loved-ones. * Over 150 persons received the Anointing of the Sick at our Communal Anointing in October. * In addition to this, of course, there were countless confessions, including many of our Reconciliation Mondays in Lent and Advent, and Holy Communions received daily at our two weekdays Masses. * We are blessed with many parishioners taking part in Eucharistic Adoration on Thursdays after the 12:15PM Mass and on First Friday evenings at 7:30PM with the Holy Hour conducted by Deacon Anthony Cassaneto. * Approximately 1530 people attend Mass here every Sunday. 2. The Lord gives us the gift of our children. * Our elementary school is the “second home” for 425 children, ranging from 3-Year Old Class to Grade 8. Our principal, Mrs. Josephine Fanelli and her excellent staff of teachers and assistants offer our children far more than academic instruction. They help our children to be a “community of faith,” taking what they learn in the classroom and applying it to daily life. Our children come to church regularly for Mass, Benediction, confession and other ceremonies. Our children are also taught to be people of service, taking part in toy drives, food for the needy, clothing collections and other activities to help our brothers and sisters in need. * Our CCD Program on Wednesday evenings (Grades 4 to 8) and on Sunday mornings (Grades 1 to 3), coordinated by Mrs. Marie McCarrick, teaches the faith to 185 children, helping them to grow in Christ. We are blessed to have fifteen volunteer teachers to assist these children and several older youngsters who serve as assistants. * We thank God for the study group taught on Tuesday evenings by Father Joseph Ligory, helping our people to grow in love for God’s Holy Word. 3. The Lord has blessed us with the gift of love for His Blessed Mother. In May we observe the Crowning of her statue, honoring her as Queen and Mother. We join in honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas in December and Our Lady of Montevirgine in September. We honor Our Lady in October with our beautiful Candlelight Rosary and we give the children in our school and CCD Program rosaries for their homes. May Our Lady always be close to us, her St. Theresa children. 4. The Lord has invited us to share the gift of service. We are blessed to have so many people who serve our church. We have our faithful altar servers (over 45 each weekend at our Masses), our ushers, proclaimers and Eucharistic Ministers under the direction of Deacon Cassaneto and our dedicated music Director Dr. Liya Petrides, our leaders of song Donna Liello and Gina Gentile, and, of course our three choirs –Children’s Choir (10:30AM Mass), Adult Choir (12:15PM Mass) and Spanish choir (1:30PM Mass). We have our dedicated sacristan Marie Sansalone who takes such wonderful care of our sanctuary and our sacristy and helps to keep our church a fitting place For the worship of Almighty God. We have the ladies in the Altar Society who take care of the vestments and linens for Mass and who serve our parish in the communion Breakfast, Candlelight Procession and other ceremonies. We have our Giving Tree during Advent, under the direction of Mrs. Carmella Greco, which provides toys, coats and other items for the needy. We Have the able help of our Parish Council, which also assists in our parish activities and special projects: our Little Flower Gift shop under the direction of Loretta Monahan; our St. Vincent de Paul Society headed by Julius DiFiore which takes care of food distribution and other charitable works; our Monday committee which helps us with counting. We have a very active Home School Association which conducts many fund-raisers to help our school and an energetic Sports Board to coordinate Energetic Sports Board to coordinate youth activities. continued EPIPHANY OF THE LORD

We have the many volunteers who assist our Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts each week. We have a number of high school youngsters who offer their time and energy to help with our many activities throughout the year. In all of this, our parish is a busy place, busy about the service of God and neighbor. And I must not forget to mention our diligent rectory staff Cathy Zingaro, Bernadette Donoghue and Angela Stoyka who help you and me in every aspect of St. Theresa life. 5. We celebrate the gift of our priests. Our parish has always had a great love for the Priesthood and for priests. We thank God for the wonderful who have served our church, Msgr. Filitti our founding pastor, Msgr. Ponsiglione, Msgr. Mazziotta, Msgr. Guido and of course our dear Father Grippo who served this parish for 23 years of faithful service. We are blessed with dedicated service of the priests who serve here today, Father Joseph Ligory who is so attentive to the sick and coordinates our RCIA and Bible Study; Msgr Neil Graham who has joined us this year and who conducts our Spanish ministry; Father Robert Imbelli who assists us On weekends when he is available; Father Thomas D’Angelo who lives here with us and is very much a part of St. Theresa life And the Salesian priests, Father John Serio, Father Bill Feruzzi and Father Abraham Feliciano who assist us with Sunday Mass. Of course we are blessed with Deacon Cassaneto for his twenty-nine years of service to our parish and Deacon Hartley Bancroft assists us on weekends as he prepares for his ordination to the Priesthood in May. May the Lord continue to guide our priests and may other young men hear His call to “Come and follow me.” 6. And finally we thank God for the gift of giving us you, our faithful parishioners. Tradition tells us that the Magi came from different nations to worship the Lord whose Star they had seen at its rising. Our Parish likewise represents people who come from different lands, from Italy, from , from Albania and from many Latin American countries. We are all one in Christ. You good people likewise have “followed the star,” the star of your faith. And just as the Star of Bethlehem led the Magi to Jesus, so too the star of your faith leads you to Him today. Thank you for being the modern-day Magi, bringing your gifts to the Lord and receiving from the Lord so many gifts in return. May Our Lord continue to bless you and may He continue to bless St. Theresa’s Parish.

Father Thomas B. Derivan

Prayer of Pope Francis for the Jubilee Lord Jesus Christ, You have taught us to be merciful like the heavenly Father, and have told us that whoever sees you sees him. EPIPHANY Show us your face and we will be saved. FEAST OF LIGHT Your loving gaze freed Zacchaeus and Matthew from being On this day, dear Savior, enslaved by money; Your light shines brightly in our midst. the adulteress and Magdalene from seeking happiness only in created You are the Light of the World, things; made Peter weep after his betrayal; and assured Paradise to the the Light in our darkness, repentant thief. Let us hear, as if addressed to each one of us, the words that you spoke ever with us, ever showing us the way. to the Samaritan woman: “If you knew the gift of God!” On this great feast of Light, You are the visible face of the invisible Father, of the God who when the Magi came guided by a star, manifests his power above all by forgiveness and mercy: let the Church may we, like them, offer You gifts be your visible face in the world, its Lord risen and that symbolize our love for You. glorified. May we offer You the gold of our faith, You willed that your ministers would also be clothed in weakness in the myrrh of our repentance order that they may feel compassion for those in ignorance and error: and the frankincense of our devotion. let everyone who approaches them feel sought after, loved, and forgiven May we bow before You, Holy Savior, by God. Send your Spirit and consecrate every one of us with its as the three Wise Men did, anointing so that the Jubilee of Mercy may be a year of grace from the with great and abiding joy. Lord, and your Church, with renewed enthusiasm, may bring good news On this day, may we, too, to the poor, proclaim liberty to captives and the oppressed, and restore stand in Your light sight to the blind. and so give glory to our God. We ask this through the intercession of Mary, Mother of Mercy, you Amen who live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit for Ever and ever. Amen

WITH MUCH THANKS! We are grateful to all who made our celebration of Christmas so beautiful her at St. Theresa’s. We thank our Music Director Dr. Liya Petrides , the Children’s Choir and the Adult Choir for praising the Lord so reverently in song. We thank our ushe rs, Eucharistic Ministers, lectors and altar servers for their faithful service. We thank Marie Sansalone and the ladies who decorated our sanctuary so beautifully and made it a fitting place of welcome to the Lord. On behalf of our priests and Deacon Hartley, we thank all of them and all of you for our joyful celebration of Our Savior’s Birth. JANUARY 3, 2016

JANUARY 4 JANUARY 6 ST. ELIZABETH ANN SETON ST. ANDRÉBESSETTE (1845-1937)

Mother Seton is one of the keystones of the American Catholic Brother André expressed a saint’s faith by a lifelong devotion to Church. She founded the first American religious community for St. Joseph. Sickness and weakness dogged André from birth. He was women, the Sisters of Charity. She opened the first American the eighth of 12 children born to a French Canadian couple near Parish school and established the first American Catholic orphanage. Montreal. Adopted at 12, when both parents had died, he became a All this she did in the span of 46 years while raising her five children. farmhand. Various trades followed: shoemaker, baker, blacksmith-all Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton is a true daughter of the American failures. He was a factory worker in the during the boom Revolution, born August 28, 1774, just two years before the Declaration times of the Civil War. of Independence. By birth and marriage, she was linked to the first At 25, he applied for entrance into the Congregation of the Holy Cross. families of New York and enjoyed the fruits of high society. Reared a After a year’s novitiate, he was not admitted because of he weak health. staunch Episcopalian by her mother and stepmother , she learned the But with an extension and the urging of Bishop Bourget (see Marie-Rose value of prayer, Scripture and a nightly examination of conscience. Her Durocher, October 6), he was finally received. He was given the humble father, Dr. Richard Bayley, did not have much use for churches but was a job of doorkeeper at Notre Dame College in Montreal, with additional great humanitarian, teaching his daughter to love and serve others. duties as sacristan, laundry worker and messenger, “When I joined this The early deaths of her mother in 1777 and her baby sister in 1778 community, the superiors showed me the door, and I remained 40 years. gave Elizabeth a feel for eternity and the temporariness of the pilgrim life In his little room near the door, he spent much of the night on his knees. on earth. Far from being brooding and sullen, she faced each new On his windowsill, facing Mount Royal, was a small statue of St. Joseph, “holocaust,” as she put it, with hopeful cheerfulness. to whom he had been devoted since childhood. When asked about it he At 19, Elizabeth was the belle of New York and married a handsome, said, “Some day, St. Joseph is going to be honored in a very special way wealthy businessman, William Magee Seton. They had five children on Mount Royal!” before his business failed and he died of tuberculosis. At 30, Elizabeth When he heard someone was ill, he visited to bring cheer and to pray was widowed, penniless, with five small children to support. with the sick person. He would rub the sick person lightly with oil taken While in Italy with her dying husband, Elizabeth witnessed Catholicity from a lamp burning in the college chapel. Word of healing powers in action through family friends. Three basic points led her to become a began to spread. When an epidemic broke out at a nearby college, André Catholic: belief in the Real Presence, devotion to the Blessed Mother and volunteered to nurse. Not one person died. The trickle of sick people to conviction that the led back to the apostles and to his door became a flood. His superiors were uneasy; diocesan authorities Christ. Many of her family and friends rejected her when she became a were suspicious; doctors called him a quack. “I do not cure,” he said Catholic in March 1805. again and again. “St. Joseph cures.” In the end he needed four To support her children, she opened a school in . From the secretaries to handle the 80,000 letters he received each year. beginning, her group followed the lines of a religious community, which For many years the Holy Cross authorities had tried to buy land on was officially founded in 1809. Mount Royal. Brother André and others climbed the steep hill and The thousand or more letters of Mother Seton reveal the development planted medals of St. Joseph. Suddenly, the owners yielded. André of her spiritual life from ordinary goodness to heroic sanctity. She collected 200 dollars to build a small chapel and began receiving visitors suffered great trials of sickness, misunderstanding, the death of loved there-smiling through long hours of listening, applying St. Joseph’s oil. ones (her husband and two young daughters) and the heartache of a Some were cured, some not. The pile of crutches, canes and braces grew. wayward son. She died January 4, 1821, and became the first American- The chapel also grew. By 1931 there were gleaming walls, but money born citizen to be beatified (1963) and then canonized (1975). ran out. “Put a statue of St. Joseph in the middle. If he wants a roof over She is buried in Emmitsburg, . his head, he’ll get it.” The magnificent Oratory on Mount Royal took 50 Elizabeth Seton had no extraordinary gifts. She was not a Mystic or years to build. The sickly boy who could not hold a job died at 92. stigmatic. She did not prophesy or speak in tongues. She had two great He is buried at the Oratory and was beatified in 1982. devotions: abandonment to the will of God and an ardent love for the At his canonization in October 2010, Pope Benedict XVI said: Blessed Sacrament. She wrote to a friend, Julia Scott, that she would Brother Andre Bessette, a native of Quebec in Canada, and a religious of prefer to exchange the world for a “cave or a desert.” “But God has the Congregation of the Holy Cross, experienced suffering and poverty at given me a great deal to do, and I have always and hope always to prefer a very early age. They led him to have recourse to God through prayer his will to every wish of my own.” Her brand of sanctity is open to and an intense inner life. As porter of the College of Notre Dame in everyone if we love God and do his will. Montreal, he demonstrated boundless charity and strove to relieve the Elizabeth Seton told her sisters, “The first end I propose in our daily distress of those who came to confide in him. With very little education, work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the he had nevertheless understood where the essential of his faith was manner he wills it; and thirdly, to do it because it is his will.” situated. For him, believing meant submitting freely and through love to the divine will. Wholly inhabited by the mystery of Jesus, he lived the beatitude of pure of heart, that of personal rectitude. It is thanks to this simplicity that he enabled many people to see God. He had built the Oratory of St. Joseph of Mount Royal, whose faithful custodian he remained until his death in 1937. He was the witness of innumerable cures and conversions. ‘Do not seek to have your trials removed,’ he said, ‘ask rather for the grace to bear them well.’ For him, everything spoke of God and of God’s presence. May we, in his footsteps, seek God with simplicity in order to discover him ever present in the heart of our life!” “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures,” said St. André Bessette.

JANUARY 5 ST. (1811-1860)

John Neumann was born on March 28, 1811, in Prachatitz, Bohemia. He completed his studies for the priesthood at the University of Prague. At first, his ordination was delayed because of his illness but then put off indefinitely because the diocese had enough priests at that time. Therefore, John, who had always been interested in being a to America, wrote to several bishops in the United States. In 1836, he came to this country uncertain as to where he would go. Bishop Dubois of New York welcomed him gladly for there were few priests in the area. On June 25, 1836, John was ordained a priest at the old St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Mott Street, New York City. The following week Father Neumann became pastor of the whole Niagara frontier, some 100 miles of swampy, primeval forest. He would walk or ride miles through dangerous forests in snow, rain or heat to bring the consolations of religion to the sick and dying. He neither ate, tested, nor slept properly. He was small in stature, five foot four inches, but sturdy. Father John Neumann had a deep respect and love for learning. Whenever he could, he set up little schoolhouses and if teachers were not available he found time to conduct the classes himself. After four years of the frontier, the pressure of the work and complete disregard for his own physical welfare, Father Neumann collapsed from exhaustion. He was unable to work for three months and during this time he made the decision to join the . After a one and a half year novitiate, Father Neumann made his profession of vows in 1842. He was the first Redemptorist to be professed in the United States and his first assignment was to the Redemptorists Church of St. James in Baltimore. His ability to speak seven languages, German, Czech, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Gaelic helped him to serve his people. Father Neumann was always there whenever anyone needed him, he never turned anyone away. On February 10, 1848, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States and in January, 1851, Father Neumann was appointed rector of St. Alphonus Church in Baltimore. It was Pope Pius IX who appointed John Neumann a Bishop and on his forty-first birthday he was consecrated Bishop of by Francis Kenrick. His first concern was always the immigrant children. He gave first priority to establishing schools and is credited with setting up the first system of parochial schools in the United States with a unified system under a diocesan board. After increasing the number of parish school children from 500 to 9000 in thirty months, he turned to the task of church building and recruiting priests. During his eight year reign as Bishop, 73 new churches and chapels were built. On the morning of January 5, 1860, Bishop Neumann was not feeling well. He had not been feeling well for several days. But mindful of his lifelong habit of never wasting a minute, he planned to take a walk and do a few errands. On that day he had lunch with Bishop Wood and after lunch he confided to a Redemptorist conferee, Father Urban, “I have a strange feeling today. I feel as I never felt before. I have to go out on a little business and the fresh air will do me good. A man must always be ready,” Bishop Neumann said, “for death comes when and where God wills it.” As he walked along Vine Street near thirteenth, his steps became uncertain and he was seen to stagger. A moment later he fell to the ground. Two strangers carried him into a home at 1218 Vine Street and there in a matter of minutes he died of apoplexy in his forty-ninth year. John Berger, the bishop’s nephew, wrote, “He hated all honor and praise of the world.” At his funeral “The Little Bishop” had no choice. Honor and praise were showered upon him from all sides, from the rich and the poor, from the little children and the aged. In a moving oration at the requiem mass, Archbishop Kendrick told the congregation: “You will testify to his blameless life and unfeigned piety. The constant visitation to his diocese throughout almost the whole year marked him as the good shepherd anxious to afford his sheep the pastures of eternal life… Truly he has been an active and devoted , living only for his flock.” Bishop Neumann was laid to rest in the Redemptorist Church of St. Peter at Fifth Street and Girard Avenue, Philadelphia. This (in the usual course of events) would have been the end of Bishop Neumann’s story. But, in his case, the course of events did not follow the usual pattern. Out of their deep love for “The Little Bishop” the people began to make it a habit to pray at his tomb. The thing that made this unusual was that the people prayed not for him, but to him. The people, especially the poor, who had been helped by his charity and kindness began to petition him for favors, for recovery from illness, for help with their many problems. As time went by, stories were heard and repeated of the marvelous things that had come to pass after prayers had been invoked to Bishop Neumann. The Church at this time didn’t sponsor the devotion to Bishop Neumann. In 1885, 25 years after his death, application was made to for the introduction of the cause of his beatification. Ten years later, Pope Leo XIII accorded to Bishop Neumann the title of Venerable and in 1921 Pope Benedict XV declared that Bishop Neumann was “heroic in virtue.” As the long slow process toward Bishop Neumanns’s beatification continued, two miracles which resulted from prayer to “The Little Bishop” were approved by the Church. On June 19, 1977, John Nepomucene Neumann became America’s third Roman Catholic saint, and the first American male saint. Each servant of God is created as an individual; each has his own individual type of holiness. His was what we may call the ordinary way of holiness, a way practical for all. He was not, during life, the recipient of extraordinary favors; such as the gift of working miracles, of prophecy, of heavenly visions. He merely did the ordinary tasks of every day life extraordinarily well. The best way to summarize Bishop Neumann’s devotion to duty would be to say that he exemplified the virtues of humility, simplicity, and zeal. THIS WEEK’S ALTAR BREAD IS IN LOVING MEMORY OF ROSALIE MASTERS & DOMINIC SCARANO SATURDAY JANUARY 2, 2015 LOVE, YOUR FAMILIES 5:00PM Dolores DeJesus SUNDAY JANUARY 3, 2015 7:30AM Mary Dallaspezia 9:00AM Sonny Loreto 10:30AM John Marro 12:15PM Richard Lent PLEASE PRAY FOR THE RECENTLY DECEASED 1:30PM The Parishioners of St. Theresa Parish MEMBERS OF OUR PARISH AND THEIR FAMILIES 5:00PM Pasquale Chiodi ANNA CORBISIERO & DOMENICK E. SGOBBO MONDAY JANUARY 4, 2015 8:00AM Mary Walsh 9:00AM Maria & Antonio Maiorino Please continue to share the peace and joy of our faith with TUESDAY JANUARY 5, 2015 others especially this time of the year. There are so many that 8:00AM Anthnoy Marcellino are in the need of Jesus. Can you be for all of us a living sign to 9:00AM Carol Flanders all our parishioners and neighbors, and tell them for us “we need WEDNESDAY JANUARY 6, 2015 them and love them”. Someone may hear and accept the 8:00AM Anthony Loreto invitation from you and return home to worship the Lord with us. 9:00AM Mario Biaggi So please invite a friend, relative, or neighbor to come with you to THURSDAY JANUARY 7, 2015 Church next Sunday. God will do the rest. Let us share our 8:00AM Nino Madonna treasure of faith with others. 9:00AM Thomas & E. Ann Mulhern SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS - Please support our 12:00PM Elizabeth C. 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