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 (Confession)

Wednesdays‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐8:00 pm Saturday‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ 2:45 ‐ 3:45 pm

Neo-Cathecumenal Mass ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐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 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 not long after their son’s birth in September 1991. He became a frequent communicant after the reception of his (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 , Saint , and Saint .

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 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 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 , 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 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. 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’ .

Within a month of the decree, 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 in Assisi, Italy, with Cardinal 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 :  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. The next class will be held November 7, 2020 in the church at 1:00PM and then the child can be baptized after that on the second Saturday of each month at 1:00PM. If you would like to arrange a baptism, please call the office at 203-324-9544.

MESSA IN MEMORIA SETTIMANALI: Se qualcuno vuole donare l’ostia, il vino per la messa o la lampada del santuario in memoria di una persona cara o come una donazione si prega di contattare l’ufficio 203-324-9544. L’offerta e`di $25.00 per ciascuno.

CLASES PRE-BAUSTISMALES: En Español se ofrecen el tercer sabado de cada mes, a la 1:00PM en la iglesia. Por favor llamar a la oficina para registrarse 203-324-9544. La proxima clase será el 21 de Noviembre. Los bautizos es Español se celebran el cuarto sabado de cada mes a la 1:00 PM.

LETTER FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

All baptized Christians who have died and are now with God in glory are considered saints. All Saints Day is intended to honor the memory of countless unknown and un-canonized saints who have no feast days. Today we thank God for giving ordinary men and women a share in His holiness and heavenly glory as a reward for their faith. This feast is observed to teach us to honor the saints, both by imitating their lives and by seeking their intercession for us before Christ, the only mediator between God and man (I Tm 2:5). The Church reminds us today that God’s call for holiness is universal, that all of us are called to live in His love and to make His love real in the lives of those around us. Holiness is related to the word wholesomeness. We grow in holiness when we live wholesome lives of integrity, truth, justice, charity, mercy, and compassion, sharing our blessings with others.

Diversity of Saints - One thing that strikes you first about the saints is their diversity. It would be very difficult to find one pattern of holiness, one way of following Christ. There is Thomas Aquinas, the towering intellectual, and John Vianney (The Curéd’Ars), who barely made it through the seminary. There is Vincent de Paul, a saint in the city, and there is Antony who found sanctity in the harshness and loneliness of the desert. There is Bernard kneeling on the hard stones of Clairvaux in penance for his sins, and there is Hildegard of Bingen singing and throwing flowers, madly in love with God. There is Albertus Magnus, the quirky scientist, half- philosopher and half-wizard, and there is Gerard Manley Hopkins, the gently poet. There is Peter, the hard- nosed and no-nonsense fisherman, and there is Edith Stein, secretary of Edmund Husserl and colleague to Martin Heidegger, the most famous philosopher of the twentieth century. There is Joan of Arc, leading armies into war, and there is Francis of Assisi, the peacenik who would never hurt an animal. There is the grave and serious Jerome, and there is Philip Neri, whose spirituality was based on laughter. How do we explain this diversity? God is an artist, and artists love to change their styles. The saints are God’s masterpieces, and He never tired of painting them in different colors, different styles, and different compositions. What does this mean for us? It means we should not try to imitate any one Saint exactly. Look to them all, study their unique holiness, but then find that specific color God wants to bear through you. St. Catherine of Siena was right: “Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.” (Bp. Robert Barren).

St. Paul asks us to serve and honor such noble souls. In his Epistles to the Corinthians, to Philip and to Timothy, he advises Christians to welcome, serve and honor those who have put their trust in Jesus. The saints enjoy heavenly bliss as a reward for their faith in Jesus. Hence, they deserve our veneration of them. The saints are our role models. They teach us by their lives that Christ’s holy life of love, mercy and unconditional forgiveness can, with the grace of God, be lived by ordinary people from all walks of life and at all times.

The saints are our heavenly mediators who intercede for us before Jesus, the only mediator between God and us. (Jas 5:16-18, Ex 32:13, Jer 15:1, Rv. 8:3)

The saints are the instruments that God uses to work miracles at present, just as He used the staff of Moses (Ex), the bones of the prophet Elisha (2Kgs. 13:21), the towel of Paul (Acts 19:12) and the shadow of Peter (Acts 5:15) to work miracles.

We need to accept the challenge to become saints. Jesus exhorts us: “Be made perfect as your heavenly Father is Perfect: (Mt 5:48). St. Augustine asked: “If he and she can become saints, why can’t I?” (Si isteetista, cur non ego?). We all can become saints by choosing well by doing good and avoiding evil, by choosing to follow Christ, all the way to heaven.

We need to take the shortcuts practiced by three St. Teresas: St. Teresa of Avila: Recharge your spiritual batteries every day by prayer, namely, listening to God and talking to Him; St. Therese of Lisieux: Convert every action into prayer by offering it to God for His glory and for the salvation of souls and by doing God’s will to the best of your ability. St. Teresa of Calutta (Mother Teresa): Do ordinary things with great love. Do something beautiful for God. Saints of God pray for us.

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