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This Week SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT Monday – Miraculous Medal Novena – 7:30pm First Reading: Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11 SCHEDULE Isaiah emphasizes that from the desert to the SUNDAY, December 13, 2020 mountains, all people prepare for “the glory of Saturday the Lord to be revealed.” Rather than looking only at 4:00PM Peter Orleman God’s power, Isaiah focuses on God’s kindness, Sunday comparing it to a shepherd who feeds and cares for 7:00AM Larry Waldorf his flock. 9:00AM Edwin Hall-Clarke Second Reading: 2 Peter 3:8-14 11:00AM Terence Hurson For those who are impatient for the Second Coming, Peter explains that time is different to God than to people. He reminds them that they should be grateful Our Sanctuary Lamp for the extra time to prepare, and concentrate on The Sanctuary Lamp, which is next to our striving to become all that God would want them to be. , is a sign of the Real Presence of , the Light of the World, in our Parish : Mark 1:1-8 Church. In accordance with tradition, this candle In this passage, John the Baptist stressed the may be dedicated in honor or in memory of a importance of the coming of the Messiah. He particular person or persons, or for a special acknowledged that he was only the messenger, and intention. The customary offering for this weekly unfit to “stoop and untie his sandal straps.” John dedication is $20. There are several dates still urged them to prepare for one far holier than he, who would walk among them. open for dedication in 2020 Book. Anyone who would like to plan for dedicating the Sanctuary ©1999 Bon Venture Services, Inc. Lamp should contact the Parish Office. A FRESH PERSPECTIVE ON THE SUNDAY The Sanctuary Light for this week is donated in READINGS loving memory of Leonard Rosko requested by HIS WORD TODAY by Rev. William J. Reilly Mr. & Mrs. Dan Clifford. Second Sunday of Advent December 6, 2020

BREAD AND WINE “Go up onto a high mountain, Zion, herald of glad We are accepting offerings for the Bread and tidings; cry out at the top of your voice, Jerusalem, Wine for the week in memory of your loved ones. herald of good news! Fear not to cry out and say to The customary offering for this weekly dedication the cities of Judah: Here is your God! He comes with is $20. Any questions, please call the Parish power, the Lord God, who rules by his strong arm... office 718-351-1093. Like a shepherd he feeds his flock, in his arms he gathers the lambs, carrying them in his bosom, and The Bread and Wine for this week are donated in leading the ewes with care.” loving memory of Leonard Rosko requested by Writing centuries before Christ, the prophet calls us Mr. & Mrs. Dan Clifford. today to once again make the same great announcement. The ‘hear ye, hear ye’ of the Isaiah nd 2 Sunday of Advent December 6, 2020 era, echoes in our hearts as we speak not only of the The cry of the people: “Lord, let us see your need of Jesus’ saving grace, but its coming to us kindness.” Who will prepare the way of the Lord once more. We too are called to reveal His coming in coming to us today. If you would like to be a or grace, His power. have questions about the priesthood, please contact Today we call this the work of heralding the Vocation Office at (914) 968-1340 or ‘evangelization’, and our advent task is to prepare His www.NYPRIEST.COM “The World Needs Heroes” way and make sure He is known. The same Jesus feeds, gathers and carries us, leading with care. FATHER GANNON SCHOLARSHIP FUND What a beautiful image! This Fund helps students who attend OLQP School to remain in school when their family suffers a long term set back. Please make checks payable to: OLQP/ Father Gannon Scholarship Fund.

From the ’s Desk … Why Do Catholics Do That? Why is purple the color of Advent? Advent is a season of preparation. Spiritual preparation, welcoming the Lord. Longing to be in the The uses visual aids to highlight a presence of the Holy one. Let us not only prepare for season of the or a mystery of the faith. the secular event of Christmas but also for the true Purple – violet – represents a time of penance and event of Christmas. preparation. During the weeks of Advent, the priest Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish is offering to assist wears violet and the is decorated with in your Advent preparation: Come to a weekday violet to remind us to prepare penitentially for Christ’s as an outward sign of active preparation. Pray coming. the rosary with us. Spend some time praying in the On the third Sunday of Advent (Gaudete Sunday), presence of the . Weekday Mass rose vestments and altar cloths are used to signal times are Monday-Friday: 8 am beginning with 7am that Advent is almost over. This is a happy time when adoration and confessions until 7:55 am. we anticipate the joy of Christ’s coming. Join us Friday evenings in Advent for exposition of the Blessed Sacrament beginning at 6 pm until Mass at 7 pm. Confessions will be heard from 6-7pm. Advent efforts to practice consistent acts of kindness and love to all are strengthened by the graces of the sacramental confession of our sins. Our parish helps us to prepare for the annual journey to Bethlehem by offering the sacrament of Penance in addition to The Joy of Advent weekday mornings, on Saturdays from 3:00pm to 3:45pm. The sincere confession of sins before the representative of Jesus gives us divine assurance GRACE THROUGH WAITING that the superabundance of God’s mercy and Patricia Livingston forgiveness frees us from the shackles and burden of Advent: A strong wind is blowing. An adventure is sin. His paths into our hearts are made straight and in the air. Someone is coming. The curious energy of we can welcome him with inexpressible joy and Advent is that we are looking for something we know peace. is already here. It is both right now and not yet. We The reception of the in every Mass is a sing “O Come, O Come Emmanuel,” yet Emmanuel welcome to Jesus to live in our hearts. We offer a means “God is with us.” very special welcome to Jesus when we receive the The days of Advent are like the intriguing little doors Eucharist on Christmas. We are conscious of the on an Advent calendar. Each one opens to reveal historical bond between the Child Jesus in the some aspect of Christmas. The reflections that follow manger and the Eucharistic Jesus and our hearts are some of the doorways I find in the Emmanuel overflow with love and gratitude that God sent His reality—beauty, kindness, prayer, humor, insight, Son for our salvation and the Son gave us the gift of memory, encounter, music, and Scripture. What himself in the Eucharist. In doing this, then and only doors will you open this season? then will we be truly prepared for His coming. Please note, we will be again live streaming our (From Catholic Update) Saturday 4 pm and Sunday 11 am Masses via our parish website and YouTube. May this Advent season be a time for bringing hope, transformation and fulfillment into the Advent of our lives.

Father Dominic

PARISH STEWARDSHIP

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Sunday Collection(Nov. 22nd) $5,606.50 9:00PM – Our Lady of Lourdes th Shrine Candles $76.00 Christmas Day, December 25 Catholic Charities $1,360.00 7:00AM, 10:00AM (OLL), 11:00AM & 1:15PM

Thank you for your support and generosity.

ANNOUNCED MASSES Monday, December 7 – Saint Ambrose, We Welcomed the Newly Baptized and Doctor of the Church to our parish 8:00AM Joel Ciminieri 7:00PM Frank Scafuri Jr.

Tuesday, December 8 – The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary 8:00AM Alba and Gaetano Migliorini 12NOON Victoria D’Agostino 7:00PM OLL Deceased Members of the Bellavia and Brascia Family

Wednesday, December 9 – Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin 8:00AM Rocco and Julia Ruriani

Thursday, December 10 9:00AM Katherine Buglino

Friday, December 11 – Saint Damasus I, Pope 8:00AM Peter Musalo

Saturday, December 12 – Our Lady of Guadalupe Deceased Members of the Seaver-Casazza Family

4:00PM Deceased Members of the Hanley-Dillon Family, Marie and Joseph Babbino

Sunday, December 13 – 3rd Sunday of Advent 7:00AM Timothy and Ethel Hogan 9:00AM Deceased Members of the Holy Name Society/Father’s Club Olivia Rose Sabella 11:00AM Michael Conca, Anthony and Vivian Licata 10:00AM OLL – Deceased Members of the Corella, Anastasio and Taliercio Families Our Lady Queen of Peace Christmas Wreaths

Eternal rest grant unto their souls, O Lord, And let perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of the faithful departed . Amen. This year we are offering an opportunity to memorialize your family or loved ones with evergreen Tiffany Joy Adebowale, Frank Gissi, Christmas wreaths to be displayed outside the Magaly Azocar, John Ronald Covino Church. Those interested in a Christmas memorial should contact the rectory. Only 50 wreaths are for purchase and minimum donation for the wreath is PRAY FOR OUR SICK $75.00. Wreaths will be also be available at Our Lady Tara LaBarca, Baby Gabriel, Jane Miller, Jeanine of Lourdes. Wreaths will be inside on the Church Gallagher, Riyan Richard. wall. These will be a different size and the donation will be $100. Please note, only 10 will be available. Please call the rectory if you would like someone to visit the sick at 718-351-1093. Live Stream Mass 50/50 Monthly Drawing 2-ways to view live. The 50/50 drawing will be held on the last week of YouTube: OLQP CHURCH Staten Island, our every month. Yellow 50/50 envelopes are provided in church channel will open, then click on the Arrow. your envelope package and also at the back of the Church. The cost is $5.00. To be eligible to win, Website: olqpchurch.org and click on the please be sure to get your entry in soon! Good Luck YouTube channel on the website. to all. ADVENT RECONCILIATION MONDAY RELIGIOUS ED. NEWS December 21st Parish Religious Education Program Registration Confessions are heard from 4:00pm to 8:00pm in every parish. Advent gives us a Our Religious Education Program will be a remote program this year. We will be using Sadlier’s new wonderful opportunity to preach on the program Christ In Us for grades 1-6 and Sadlier’s We importance the Sacrament of Penance, and to Live Our Faith for the 7th grade. remind our people that this Sacrament is the best way to prepare for the joy of Christmas Classes are in session. and celebrating the birth of Our Savior. Contact Mrs. Barbara Orleman at 718-979-0989 for additional information. Make the most of Advent Registration is on-going The season of Advent is designed to help us We are looking forward to working with and praying with every family and sharing the Good News of prepare to celebrate Jesus’ birth at Christmas. Think Christ as we journey through this year together. of it: God became man, and now reigns as King of all creation.

Every Christmas is a chance to welcome Jesus as an honored guest into our hearts. Think of all the planning, cooking, and cleaning needed to have a guest over. In Advent we prepare our hearts to welcome the Savior. Below are some suggestions to make the most of your Advent:

Prayer to Our Lady Of Prioritize prayer

Guadalupe Spend 15 minutes daily with God. The best

Most gracious Virgin of Guadalupe, in your way to prepare to welcome the Savior at Christmas apparitions to St. Juan Diego at Tepeyac you is to spend time with him. Set aside 15 minutes in promised to show mercy and compassion to all who your day for God and protect it. Perhaps read a sought your help and protection. In love and trust I chapter of Scripture, pray a decade of the Rosary, place my petitions before you (here mention your or just be still in his presence. requests) and ask for your motherly care. I come to you hopeful and confident that, relying on your Know the story. Read through the accounts of heavenly intercession, nothing can trouble or harm Jesus’ birth in Matthew 1:18-2:12 and/or Luke 2:1- me. 20. Place yourself in the scene. Internalizing the As you have remained with us through your Christmas story will give you a better appreciation of the season. admirable image, O Blessed Lady, so now obtain for us the graces we need. Amen. Get to know the Advent saints. One way to know God is to know his friends. There are several saints’ feasts that occur this Advent, including: St. Nicholas, the Bishop of Myra (December 6), St. Juan Diego (December 9), St. Lucy (December 13), and St. John of the Cross (December 14). Adopt VISITS TO THE SICK AND HOMEBOUND one of them to be your patron to pray for you, and Please contact the rectory if you know of to protect and encourage you. anyone who is sick at home or in the hospital Visit the Blessed Sacrament. The Eucharist is and or homebound who would like a visit from Jesus Christ, present Body, Blood, Soul and one of the , or Sr. Madeleine at Divinity (Catechism of the Catholic Church, #1374). Our Lady Queen of Peace Church. Please call All Catholic churches have a tabernacle where the 718-351-1093 or email Eucharist is stored. Speak with our Lord as you [email protected]. would a close friend.

(Re)Discover the Mass. At Mass, Heaven comes down to Earth. When we receive the Eucharist, Christ comes into our hearts and nourishes our souls. Aim to attend daily Mass once every week during the Christmas season.

SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT SECOND READING

- December 6, 2020 - A reading from the second Letter of Saint Peter

ENTRANCE ANTIPHON Do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand O people of Sion, behold, the Lord will come to save years like one day. The Lord does not delay his the nations, and the Lord will make the glory of his promise, as some regard “delay,” but he is patient voice heard in the joy of your heart. with you, not wishing that any should perish but that FIRST READING all should come to repentance. But the day of the A reading from the Book of Prophet Isaiah Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a mighty roar and the elements will Comfort, give comfort to my people, says your God. be dissolved by fire, and the earth and everything Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that done on it will be found out. her service is at an end, her guilt is expiated; Since everything is to be dissolved in this way, what indeed, she has received from the hand of the LORD sort of persons ought you to be, conducting double for all her sins. yourselves in holiness and devotion, waiting for and A voice cries out: In the desert prepare the way of the hastening the coming of the day of God, because of LORD! Make straight in the wasteland a highway for which the heavens will be dissolved in flames and the our God! Every valley shall be filled in every mountain elements melted by fire. But according to his promise and hill shall be made low; the rugged land shall be we await new heavens and a new earth in which made a plain, the rough country, a broad valley. Then righteousness dwells. Therefore, beloved, since you the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all await these things, be eager to be found without spot people shall see it together; for the mouth of the or blemish before him, at peace. LORD has spoken. The word of the Lord. Go up on to a high mountain, Zion, herald of glad ------tidings; cry out at the top of your voice, Jerusalem, herald of good news! Fear not to cry out and say to Gospel the cities of Judah: Here is your God! Here comes with power the Lord GOD, who rules by his strong A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark arm; here is his reward with him, his recompense The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ the Son before him. Like a shepherd he feeds his flock; in his of God. arms he gathers the lambs, carrying them in his As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: bosom, and leading the ewes with care. Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of The word of the Lord. you; he will prepare your way. ------A voice of one crying out in the desert: “Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.” Responsorial Psalm John the Baptist appeared in the desert proclaiming a R. Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. us your salvation. People of the whole Judean countryside and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem were going out to him and I will hear what God proclaims; the LORD—for he were being baptized by him in the Jordan River as proclaims peace to his people. Near indeed is his they acknowledged their sins. John was clothed in salvation to those who fear him, glory dwelling in our camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. He land. fed on locusts and wild honey. And this is what he proclaimed:, “One mightier than I is coming after me. R. Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant I am not worthy to stoop and loosen the thongs of his us your salvation. sandals. I have baptized you with water; he will

baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” Kindness and truth shall meet; justice and peace shall kiss. Truth shall spring out of the earth, and The Gospel of the Lord. justice shall look down from heaven. ______

R. Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation.

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