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Sacred Heart Church the Italian National Parish SACRED HEART CHURCH THE ITALIAN NATIONAL PARISH 37 SCHUYLER AVENUE • STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT 06902 All Saints November 1, 2020 Rev. Alfonso Picone, Pastor Rev. Martin deMayo, Parochial Vicar Trustees Mr. Raymond Bowling Mr. Louis Sileo Parish Finance Advisory Council Mr. Louis Sileo, CPA / 203‐348‐3499 Chairman of the Parish Council Mr. Jeffrey T. Curtis, Sr. / 203‐968‐1234 Organist & Director of Music Mr. Gregory Freilino / 1‐212‐666‐0316 Director of Religious Education Michele Sabia Rectory Office Staff Mrs. Beatrice Centonze & Mrs. Nancy Bentley Sunday Masses Holy Mass Saturday‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐4:00 pm (English) Monday ‐ Friday‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ 7:00 am Saturday‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐6:00 pm (Spanish) Saturday‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ 8:00 am Sunday ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐8:30 am (English), 10:00 am (Italian) 11:30 am (English) & 1:00 pm (Spanish) Liturgy of the Word (Lower Church) Tuesdays ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐8:00 pm Sacrament of Penance (Confession) Wednesdays‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐8:00 pm Saturday‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ 2:45 ‐ 3:45 pm Neo-Cathecumenal Mass Rosary‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐Monday, 8:00 pm (Spanish) Saturday‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ 8:00 pm (English, Lower Church) Prayer Group‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐Friday, 7:30 ‐ 9:30 pm (Church) 8:00 pm (Spanish, in Church) For the SACRAMENTS OF MARRIAGE and BAPTISMS please call rectory office. Office Hours Phone ‐‐‐‐‐‐ 203‐324‐9544 Email ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐[email protected] Monday ‐ Friday‐‐‐‐‐‐10:00 am ‐ 3:00 pm Fax ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ 203‐324‐9202 Website‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐stamfordsacredheart.org DAILY MASS Saturday October 31, 2020 4:00PM Domenico Iorfino (Birthday) By Family 6:00PM (Spanish) Francisca Liranzo por Esposo & Hijos Sunday November 1, 2020 8:30AM Joseph Bardelli by Rose Arena 10:00AM (Italian) Rose Iorfino by M/M A. Bianco 11:30AM Catherine Frabotta by David & Carol Hammond & Family 1:00PM (Spanish) Todas la Almas del Purgatorio y Oralia De Leon por Iliana The Lamp, Wine & Host for the week of November 1 – November 7 in Honor of Domenico & Tony Musilli by Wife, Mother & Family Monday November 2, 2020 7:00AM All Souls Tuesday November 3, 2020 7:00AM Domenico & Tony Musilli (First anniversary of passing) by Wife & Family Wednesday November 4, 2020 7:00AM Clyde, Julieta & Vic Cataylo by Brenda & Family Thursday November 5, 2020 7:00AM Laura Delgado by Felicia Pacheco Friday November 6, 2020 7:00AM Deceased Members of the Tolla Family by Family Saturday November 7, 2020 8:00AM Elio D’Elia, Giovanna & Emilio Sibilia by Gerarda D’Elia & Family 4:00PM Helen Strada by Family 6:00PM (Spanish) Por Nuestros Feligreses Sunday November 8, 2020 8:30AM Richard Lacerenza By Family 10:00AM (Italian) Elio D’Elia, Emilio & Giovanna Sibilia by Gerarda D’Elia & Family 11:30AM Giorgina Cesarelly by Ernesto & Raffaela Napoli 1:00PM (Spanish) En Memoria de Danny Alcantara por Familia / Manuel Reina (por su descanso eterno) por Familia SUNDAY COLLECTION – The Sunday Collection for the weekend of October 24 & 25 totaled $4,593.00. Thank you. FOR THE DECEASED - We ask the Lord to grant Eternal Rest to Elizabeth Cowic, Annette M. Lovallo and the deceased of the parish. THE ILL OF THE PARISH: Please remember in your prayers Fran Pia, Gail Piria and all our parishioners who are ill. Confessions: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 12:00-1:00PM in English Adoration: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 5:30-7:00PM Mondays (only) Adoration with novena of the Miraculous Medal 6:40PM Banns of Marriage III Antonio Ramirez & Rosemary Colabella Carlo Acutis Blessed Carlo Acutis (3 May 1991 – 12 October 2006) was an Italian Catholic computer programmer. He was best known for documenting Eucharistic miracles around the world and cataloguing them all onto a website that he created in the months before his death from leukemia. He was noted for his cheerfulness and his computer skills as well as for his deep devotion to the Eucharist which became a core theme of his life. He was beatified on 10 October 2020. Carlo Acutis was born in London on 3 May 1991 to a wealthy Italian family. His parents, Andrea Acutis and Antonia Salzano, worked in London and Germany, settling in Milan not long after their son’s birth in September 1991. He became a frequent communicant after the reception of his First Communion (age seven at the convent of St. Ambrogio ad Nemus) and made the effort either before or after Mass to reflect in front of the tabernacle. Acutis also made his confession once a week. Those around him knew he had a passion for computers. He spent his school education in Milan and his high school studies were under the Jesuits at the Instituto Leone XIII. He also had several models as his guides for life: Saint Francis of Assis, Saints Francisco and Jacinta Marto, Saint Dominic Savio, Saint Tarcisius, and Saint Bernadette Soubirous. Acutis was worried about those friends of his whose parents were divorcing and so he would invite those friends to his home to support them. He defended the rights of the disabled and defended disabled peers at school when bullies mocked them. He loved travelling but loved to visit Assisi more than other places. He contracted leukemia and offered his pain for both Pope Benedict XVI and for the Universal Church in which he said that “I offer all the suffering I will have to suffer for the Lord, for the Pope and the Church”. He had asked his parents to take him on pilgrimages to the sites of all the known Eucharistic miracles in the world but his worsening health prevented this from happening. Being passionate about computers led Acutis to make a website dedicated to careful cataloging of each reported miracle and he did this in 2005 (he had cataloged each case since he was eleven). He appreciated Blessed Giacomo Alberione’s initiatives to use the media to evangelize and proclaim the Gospel and aimed to do this with the website that he had created. He also liked film and comic editing. It was on the website that he said: “the more Eucharist we receive, the more we will become like Jesus, so that on this earth we will have a foretaste of heaven”. The doctor treating him asked him if he was suffering much pain and he responded that “there are people who suffer much more than me.” He dies on 12 October 2006 at 6:45am from M3 fulminant leukemia and he was buried in Assisi with his wishes. Carlo’s mother Antonia attributes to his intercession the fact that, at the age of 44, she gave birth to twins – born exactly four years to the day since his death. After the recognition of the miracle in 2020 she told the newspapers that her son had appeared to her in dreams informing that he will not only be beatified but also canonized a saint in the future. Both Raffaello Martinelli and Angelo Comastri helped in organizing a travelling photo exhibition of all the Eucharistic miracle sites in Carlo’s honor. It has since travelled to dozens of different countries across five continents. A call for him to be beatified began not long after Acutis’ death. The campaign gained momentum in 2013 after he was named a Servant of God, the first stage on the path towards sainthood. The Lombard Episcopal Conference approved the petition for the canonization cause to be introduced at their meeting in 2013. The opening of the diocesan investigation was held on 15 February 2013, with Cardinal Angelo Scola inaugurating the process, and then concluding it later on 24 November 2016. The formal introduction to the cause came on 13 May 2013, and Acutis became titled as a Servant of God. Pope Francis confirmed his life of heroic virtue on 5 July 2018, and named him as Venerable. On 14 November 2019, the Medical Council of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes expressed a positive opinion about a miracle in Brazil attributed to Acutis’ intercession. Luchiana Vianna had taken her son Mattheus, who was born with a pancreatic defect that made eating difficult, to a prayer service. Beforehand, Vianna had already prayed a novena asking for Acutis’ intercession, while during the service her son simply asked that he wouldn’t “throw up so much”. Immediately following the service, Mattheus informed his mother of the healing, and asked for solid food when he came home, as he had been on all-liquid diet. After investigation, Pope Francis confirmed the miracle’s authenticity in a decree on 21 February 2020, enabling Acutis’ beatification. Within a month of the decree, Italy experienced its first wave of COVID-19 cases, which caused the beatification ceremony to be postponed while the country was on lockdown. It was rescheduled for 10 October 2020 and was held at the Basicila of Saint Francis of Assisi in Assisi, Italy, with Cardinal Agostino Vallini presiding on the pope’s behalf. As of 2019, the postulator for Acutis’ cause is Francesca Consolini. Blessed Carlo pray for us. NO Please remember to HOLY NAME change your clocks as MEETING IN daylight saving time NOVEMBER. ends November 1, 2020 Congratulations to Cristobal Morales & Anna Speight as they will be married Sunday, November 1, 2020. Father Picone will be officiating the wedding. A special thank you to Anna Speight for all her work as a volunteer with our CCD program. ROSARY ALTAR SOCIETY FOOD DRIVE NOVEMBER 14 & 15 Rosarians will be collecting NON-PERISHABLE food before and after each Mass. There will be bins available for drop-off in the Church foyer. GIFTS CARDS ARE ACCEPTED. PLEASE – NO FOODS WITH EXPIRED DATES. THANK YOU. WE WELCOME INTO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: Roberto Samuel Alvarado Grijalva Joseph Enrique Hernandez Carlos Emanuel Santiago Castro Kaylee Tigre Congratulations to the babies and their parents. GUIDELINES FOR BAPTISMS: Classes in English will take place on the First Saturday of each month.
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