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St. John the Baptist R. C. Church 895 Piermont Avenue, Piermont, New York 10968 www.stjohnspiermont.org [email protected] 845-359-0078 Holy Mary, Protect all Mothers May 13, 2018 7th Sunday of Easter Rev. Tom Kunnel, C.O. MASSES Administrator Saturday: 5:00 PM [email protected] Sunday: 8:00 AM, 10:30 AM Deacon John Cunningham 1:00 PM (Spanish) Deacon Robert Pang Weekdays: 8:00 AM Saturday: 9:00 AM Kathleen Dunn Holy Days: As Announced Religious Education Director Rectory May Pang Mon – Fri 10:15 AM – 4:00 PM Parish Admin: [email protected] Sat 10 AM – 12 AM (Spanish) May Sponsor: Jonathan, Dominika, Ella & Maya Fanning In Memory of Patricia & Bill Fanning DOWNLOAD OUR FREE APP ‘ST JOHN PIERMONT’ Dear Parish Family, In the Upper Room, on the eve of his Pas- sion, Jesus prayed for his disciples. At the same time he looked ahead to the community of disciples of all centuries. In his prayer for Sat 5/12 5:00 PM Magnolia Velez the disciples of all time, he saw us too, and By Diana Gensel he prayed for us. Let us listen to what he asks for the Twelve and for us, “Consecrate them in truth…. Make them holy. AS you sent me into 8:00 AM Mother's Day Novena the world, SO I send them into the world. “To consecrate myself Sun 5/13 10:30 PM Francis Prunty means to give myself to God as his property, so that I no longer belong By Armstrong Family to myself but to God. Consecration means giving myself over to the Mon 5/14 8:00 AM Mother's Day Novena living God so that I am immersed in God. Tue 5/15 8:00 AM Mother's Day Novena The Lord prays that God himself draw us towards him, into his holi- ness. He prays that God take us away from ourselves to make us his Wed 5/16 8:00 AM Mother's Day Novena own property. I can actually be transformed into God’s own being. Thu 5/17 8:00 AM Mother's Day Novena This is so wonderful that it is almost unbelievable. We simply allow Fri 5/18 8:00 AM Mother's Day Novena God to do this act of sanctification, this consecration. Yet, there are steps I can take to allow God to work within me. We can follow the 9:00 AM Mother's Day Novena example of Mary and the Apostles after the Lord’s Ascension. Sat 5/19 5:00 PM Eileen Keane & Jean Simon They returned to the upper room where they had celebrated the Last By Eileen Simon Supper and gathered in prayer with Mary, the women, the apostles and 8:00 AM Mother's Day Novena many disciples. They spent these days on retreat praying for the Holy Spirit. Although Jesus would no longer be with them as he had been, Sun 5/20 10:30 AM Fr. Robert Aufieri By Janet Zahn he would continue to be with them as they celebrated the Eucharist and would be with them through his Spirit whom they would receive at Pentecost after this time of prayer together. While prayer is principally to make us more open to God, to help us respond better to God’s grace in our lives, we also believe that God’s THE SANCTUARY LAMP love leads him to hear and answer our prayers of petition. Each one of Is Being Offered this week for us knows people whose prayers seem to be always answered, and then they are asked to pray for others also. People often ask priests and sis- Lady of Fatima ters to pray for their intentions and ask priests to offer Mass for their intentions; that is good, but it is also good that each of us prays for Pray the Rosary for the ourselves. Prayer is an expression of our consecration and necessary Conversion of Sinners for our sanctification. We are being fashioned by prayer. If we do not pray every day there is a huge void in our lives and we cannot hope to Requested by Nijole Paronetto be happy. Not all prayers are answered, or I should say, not answered in the way we wanted. Even though not all prayers are answered in the way we desired, hopefully we can see that we have received graces we proba- Please remember in your prayers the Sick and/ bly would not have received had those prayers been answered as we or Homebound of our Parish Family. Thomas wished. We have plans and sometimes our plans are not fulfilled. Our Mooney, Molly Robinson, Cameron Robinson, lives can sometimes revolve around ‘me’ or ‘I’ or ‘myself. But God Madlen Moson, Ron Rebers, Anne Bazala, Helen has still more wonderful plans for us if we will allow them to be ful- Koza, Marge Culletto, Bill Loftus, Carolyn, Marga- filled. It is only in the next life that we will fully understand God’s ret O’Brien , Elaine Laurino plans. Even after Jesus’ resurrection some of Jesus’ disciples asked him when he would restore the kingdom to Israel as we heard in the As a Parish Family, let us remember in our prayers first reading for the Ascension (Acts 1:6). They still believed he was a all our beloved departed members of our Parish Messiah to drive out the Romans from Israel and did not yet fully un- Community, Patrick McQuaid, brother of Helen derstand that he was a Messiah to save us from our sins. They would Bark, Eleanor Jurasek, Edward Fabry—father of understand Jesus only when they would receive the Holy Spirit at Pen- Tom Fabry, Robert Olsen, brother of Ralph Olsen, tecost. They needed the grace of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost to fully Theresa Malatinsky, Elaine Dealing, Francis X. understand Jesus. Mascola, father of Ted Mascola, Lisa Cannava, During this week before Pentecost I ask you to please pray like Mary, Elaine Morrissey, mother of John Morrissey, Javier the women, the apostles and disciples for a renewed outpouring of the Monzon, Antoinette Galella, Ted Simone’s aunt, Holy Spirit on the Church and on all of us that we may respond to God better. Pray in a special way for our teenagers who will receive the Clarita Silva, mother of Freida Soriano, Kevin Ram- Sacrament of Confirmation on 19 May, so that they too will cultivate a say,, son of Richard Ramsay, Charles Pane, John life of prayer as they face a world that is so confused about Truth and Set, uncle of Dcn Rob real Happiness. PLEASE ADVISE THE RECTORY (359-0078) WHENEVER A PARISHION- ER BECOMES HOMEBOUND, ILL, OR HOSPITALIZED SO ARRANGE- MENTS CAN BE MADE FOR A PRIEST, DEACON OR EUCHARISTIC Fr. Tom Kunnel C.O. MINISTER TO VISIT AND BRING COMMUNION TO THEM. 9AM Religious Ed 10:30AM Family Mass Sun 13-May 11:30AM Legion of Mary 7PM AA Meeting Mon 14-May 6:30PM Religious Ed 10AM Scripture Class We thank all the First Communion teachers and parents 7PM Altar Server Prep who helped make the day such a success. In addition, Tues 15-May our gratitude goes out to the Catholic Daughters, to Chris 7PM Directiva Meeting and Carolyn Yates and the musicians at the 1 pm mass. 7PM Baptism Prep Our May Crowning takes place at 9:30 am this morning. Wed 16-May 7PM Amigos de Jesus Choir Practice A May Crowning is a traditional Catholic ritual which hon- 7PM Servidore Meeting ors Our Blessed Mother. Please feel free to join us. Thu 17-May 7PM Mesajeros de Jesus Chour Practice Confirmation practices take 10AM Fri Renew Group place tomorrow and Tuesday evening Fri 18-May 7PM Pentecost Vigil Spanish from 5-6:30 pm. The big day for our Confirmation Candidates is 7:30PM Youth Group this coming Saturday at the 5 Sat 19-May 5PM Confirmation pm mass. Our last classes for 2018 are Sunday, May Readings No. 843B 13 and Monday, May 14. Please register 7th Sunday of Easter for 2018-2019 ASAP. Oh Mary, we crown thee with blossoms today, Queen On Smart TV or Computer go to the Link of the angels https://www.sundaystreams.com/go/stjohnpiermont queen of the On ‘ROKU’ Select “SUNDAY STREAMS” Select the Channel “STJOHNPIERMONT” May... First Live Stream: Easter Morning 01 April at 10.30 AM Liturgy Schedule May 26/27 Time Lector Eucharistic Minister Altar Servers Saturday 5:00 PM Oscar Nordstrom Jackie Schaefer 5/26 8:00 AM Fran Loftus Lucy Bosco 10:30 AM Johanna Krumm May Pang Gianluca Gonzalez Sunday Nico Gonzalez 1:00 PM Kelley Perez Santiago Nova Cindy Ortiz 5/27 Ayleen Sicha Amy Cajamarca Evelin Palma Nathalie Cajamarca Bethzy Aguilar TODAY'S READINGS COMMISSIONED TO LIVE IN THE WORLD In today's scriptures we hear two different stories about com- 5/13 $5,323 missioning. In the Acts of the Apostles Peter leads the assem- bly in prayer that the Lord will choose and commission the person to replace Judas among the Twelve. In the Gospel Je- sus prays that his chosen disciples might be consecrated, or made holy. Will be reported next week Jesus does not ask his Father to keep the disciples separate from the world, but instead sends them out into the world. While we might think that holy people are set apart from the READINGS FOR THE WEEK world, we cannot hear today's scriptures without realizing Monday: Acts 1:15-27, 20-26; Ps 113:1-8; Jn 15:9-17 that God's holy, chosen people are commissioned to live in the Tuesday: Acts 20:17-27; Ps 68:10-11, 20-21; Jn 17:1-11a midst of the world, where they can reveal the love of God that Wednesday: Acts 20:28-38; Ps 68:29-30, 33-36ab; Jn makes the entire world holy.