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Vision Statement

We are church...co-creators with the Holy Spirit, building the city of God and renewing the earth.

Mission Statement

“This is what the Lord God asks of you: only this, to act justly, to love tenderly, and to walk humbly with your God.” (Micah 6:8b)

Pastoral Team

 Rev. Jose Jacob, SMM — Pastor [email protected]  Carol Kaczmarek — Office Assistant [email protected]  Christina Koch— Bookkeeper [email protected]  Martha Graziano — Parish Social Ministry Coordinator [email protected]  Vincent Palminteri — Director of Religious Education [email protected]  Patricia Fiene — Faith Formation Secretary [email protected]  Karenann Knotoff — Parish Communications & Data Coordinator [email protected]  Fr. Francis Pizzarelli, SMM — Weekend Assistant

Pastoral Council Finance Committee Liturgy Committee

Shirley Castellano Shirley Castellano (Trustee) Carol Kaczmarek Debbie Himmelmann Fred Koelbel (Trustee) Susan Barrasso Fred Koelbel Eugene Agbimson Stephan Borkowski Andy McCall Cathy Fasanelli Ann Carlsen John Tanner Christina Koch Terri Donahue Carol Kaczmarek Douglas Lake Maureen Ferris Ellen Shore Deb Himmelmann John Leonardis Deb Mazura John McNally Parish Outreach (631) 369-7142 Jill Meise

[email protected] Tom St. Pierre Vincent Sweeney Outreach Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. William Hurley Food Pantry Hours: Thursday 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Chris Anest Suzanne McConnell Frank Dautzenberg

Sts. Peter & Paul RC Church

Weekly Schedule at Sts. Peter and Paul MASS SCHEDULE

Saturday Vigil Mass 5:00 p.m. Sunday, August 16th, 2020 To August 23rd, 2020 Sunday, 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. All Church Activities are Postponed Until Further WE CELEBRATE EUCHARIST Notice Stay Safe and Healthy! Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at 9:00 a.m. Rectory Hours are 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. WE CELEBRATE BAPTISM Sunday 3rd Sunday of the Month Please contact the Rectory at least six weeks in advance to make Monday arrangements. Baptism Preparation Classes are required. Tuesday WE CELEBRATE MARRIAGE Wednesday Marriage arrangements should be made at least one year in advance. Thursday

WE CELEBRATE RECONCILIATION Friday

Saturday from 3:45 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. or by Appointment. Saturday

ANOINTING OF THE SICK Sunday

If you are suffering from an illness or having major surgery, please call for an appointment for Fr. Jose to visit you and administer the Sacrament of the Sick.

COMMUNION FOR THE And who of you by worrying and being HOMEBOUND anxious can add one unit of measure to his stature or to the span of his life? Do you know someone who is sick, in the hospital, or homebound Matthew 6:27 and would like to receive Holy Communion? Please call the Rectory for assistance.

ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT Prayer of Thanks

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament will take place on Fridays, Father, I thank You that I don’t have to live a life full of following the 9:00 a.m. Mass until 8:00 p.m. The Chapel is always open for silent prayer. worry. I thank You that I can come to You in prayer the moment I begin to worry about something and I can cast my care on You. Help me make the wise choice to stop worrying and start trusting You today.

Meyer, Joyce, The Power of Being Thankful, pg.221

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August 16th, 2020

WEEKLY SCRIPTURE READING Mass Intentions for August 18th, 2020 through August 23rd, 2020 Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Tuesday, August 18th, 2020 08-16 Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time 9:00 AM John and Catherine Segreto Is 56:1, 6-7 (John Segreto) Rom 11:13-15, 29-32

Mt 15:21-28 Wednesday, August 19th, 2020 08-17 Weekday 9:00 AM Father Fedele Catapano Ez 24:15-24 (Maria and Tom Stubbolo)

Mt 19:16-22 Thursday, August 20th, 2020 08-18 Weekday 9:00 AM Dominick Macchia Ez 28:1-10 (Tom and Maria Stubbolo)

Mt 19:23-30 Friday, August 21st, 2020 08-19 Saint , Priest 9:00 AM Maria Segreto Ez 34:1-11 (Special Intention—Carol Kaczmarek) Mt 20:1-16

Saturday, August 22nd, 2020 08-20 Saint Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church 5:00 PM People of the Parish Ez 36:23-28 Mt 22:1-14 Sunday, August 23rd, 2020

08-21 Saint Pius X, Pope 9:00 AM Peter and Caroline Kaczmarek Ez 37:1-14 (Carol Kaczmarek) Mt 22:34-40 Rosa Diemer and Family (Toni Feil) 08-22 The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ez 43:1-7ab 11:00 AM Concetta Eso Mt 23:1-12 (The Eso Family)

Dominick Macchia Next Sunday’s Readings, Twenty-first Sunday in (Dan and Corinne Gilmartin) Ordinary Time August 23, 2020 7:00 PM George Lanciotti (James and Karen Kaufmann) Is 22:19-23 PamelaBorock Rom 11:33-36 ( Special Intention—M.L. Heinrich) Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Mt 16:13-20

Tweet from Pope Francis St. Vincent de Paul When love for parents and children is inspired and purified by love for the Lord, it then becomes wholly fruitful and produces good fruits within Next Meeting the family itself and well beyond it.

Tuesday September 15 at 7.00 PM

Join us in praying the Rosary every Tuesday through Friday before Mass at 8:30 a.m.

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2 St. John’s Place Divine Mercy Chaplet every Wednesday Center Moriches, New York 11934 following the 9:00 a.m. Mass

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Bulletin Reflection -

TIME, TALENT & TREASURE When the winds start to beat down on us and we feel as though we could drown in our stresses, sorrows and worries, do we PARISH SACRIFICIAL trust in Jesus? Do we find it difficult to trust in Him when GIVING times are tough? August 9th, 2020 Stewardship - Pillar of Hospitality God is generous to His children. This week be generous and kind to all you meet.

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Children’s Envelopes: $ Born: November 14th, 1601 Ri, Normandy, Kingdom of Total Collection for 08/02/2020 $ France Died: August 19th, 1680, Caen, Normandy, Kingdom of France Total Collection 08//2019 $ Beautified: April 25th, 1909, Saint Peter’s Basilica, Kingdom of Italy, by Pope Pius X Sunday Mass Attendance Canonized: May 31st, 1925, Saint Peter’s Basilica, Kingdom of Italy by Pope Pius XI Feast Day: August 19th Written Quote “You must never separate what God has so perfectly united. So closely are Jesus and Mary bound up with each other that whoever beholds Jesus sees Mary; Our thoughts and prayers go out to... whoever loves Jesus, loves Mary; whoever has devo Those Who Are Sick tion to Jesus, has devotion to Mary.” Garrett Vero Lynn Turnquist Bob Russell Patron: Eudists, Order of Our Lady of Charity, Diocese of Frank Avolese Nicholas Sarubbi Andy Hennig Bae-Comeau Missionaries Pamela Borocko David Raynor Saint John was born to Isaac Eudes and Martha Corbin and was one *If you would like to add someone to the sick list, please of six children. John made his First Holy Communion on May 26th, contact the office at 631-369-1273. 1613 during Pentecost and at the age of fourteen he made a vow to be chaste. He went on to study under the Jesuits at Caen and joined the Oratorians, which is the Congregation of the Oratory of Jesus Those Who Serve Our Country and Mary, also known as the French Oratory. Here, he studied un- der Pierre de Berulle, who was one of the most important mystics of the seventeenth century. John went on to be come a member of Russell Candell Quentin Montemarano the French School of Spirituality where he gained a strong sense of Jared Yevoli Sean Hendrickson adoration and a good relationship with Jesus. Connor Hendrickson Jesse Trafford John worked closely with the ill and prostitutes. During the Eric Morgenstern plagues of 1627 and 1631, he ministered to the ill and lived in a cask in the middle of a field so that he would not get any of his col- *If you would like to add someone to the military list, please league’s sick. In 1633, he began preaching missions and became a contact the office at 631-369-1273. well-known preacher as well as a . In 1674, he received six papal bulls of indulgences from Pope Clement X for the semi- naries he created that were dedicated to the Sacred Heart. He also found the Order of Our Lady of Charity of the Refuge, in Caen, for the prostitutes he had such compassion for. This order gave them a safe place. With the support of cardinals and bishops, he was then able to create the Eudists, for the education of priests and parish missionaries. Continued on Page 6

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The Twentieth Week of Ordinary Time Daily Prayer This Week

God's love belongs to all of us, according to the readings of As we go through our everyday life this week, we carry this the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. In Isaiah, God week's gospels and their vivid descriptions of our relation- promises “my house shall be called a house of prayer for all ship with Jesus. What is he asking of us this week? peoples.” Paul, in his Letter to the Romans, tells us “the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable” and refers to himself as the Each day, we begin with the practice of briefly pausing at “apostle to the Gentiles.” In Matthew's Gospel, Jesus hears our bedside to focus the day with a 15-30 second prayer. It the pleas of a “foreign” woman, a Canaanite who begs Jesus to is helpful to develop this habit by simply doing it three or heal her daughter. four days in a row. Even if I say that I'm half-awake at this time, we can discover what a difference this way of begin- Wednesday is the Memorial of Saint Bernard, abbot and ning the day can be. With practice, it gets easier to say, doctor of the Church. Thursday is the Memorial of Saint Pius "Thank you for this day, Lord. Please, be with me today, X, pope. Friday is the Memorial of the Queenship of the especially when I do ______this morning and this after- Blessed Virgin Mary. noon as I ______. Give me more patience, love and trust in you." We continue reading from the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel. We are treated to some of the best of Ezechiel's prophesy this While washing up and dressing, I can expand this prayer, in week.He is sharp and biting in his calls for conversion and a simple friend-to-friend conversation with our Lord. This comforting in his prophesy about God's fidelity and mercy, kind of bond or checking-in with our Lord at the beginning especially in the field of dry bones that come to life. of the day, lets a background relationship with Jesus devel- op and grow, while I'm doing many things. It changes my In this week's selection from Matthew's Gospel we read some consciousness and takes my fundamental relationship with wonderful words of Jesus about being his follower. Jesus tells God and unites and integrates it with the things I'm doing, a rich, young man to sell what he has and give it to the poor. whether they are pleasant, routine or quite difficult. "Then come, follow me." The man went away with sadness because "he had many possessions." When Jesus tells his disci- Throughout the week I might be thinking of what it would ples how hard it is for the rich to be saved, his disciples worry, mean for me, in my circumstances, to sell what I have, give but he says "for God all things are possible." Jesus says there it to the poor, and really follow Jesus. What is preventing will be a great turning of the tables - the last being the first and me from following the Lord more completely? Are there the first falling to last place. But, he tells them the parable of "riches" that I know are barriers to my surrendering to the landowner that hires workers throughout the day, including God's will more freely? What seems to possess me? Recog- the last hours. When he pays them all the same, the workers nizing our lack of freedom in one or another area is the first who worked all day grumbled. Jesus asks, "Are you envious step in being able to ask for the grace of freedom from the because I am generous?" He adds again, "The last will be first, things that possess me - even when I know they are not and the first will be last." A king gives a wedding banquet for good for me. his son but many were too busy to come. Others killed the servants who carried the invitation. "Many are invited, but few We might also ask the Lord to show us what he desires that are chosen.” When asked the greatest commandment he gives we be "free for." "Freedom from" is the first part of our the double command of loving God and neighbor. Jesus warns relationship. Then, we are free to be sent. What am I being against the self serving ways of the religious elite. He says, freed for? What loving, what new generosity, what type of "The greatest among you must be your servant." self-giving? What neighbor, person in my family, or the poor of the world, am I being called to notice and serve? Keys are central to readings for the Twenty-First Sunday of We might ask the Lord to reveal to us this week how we are Ordinary Time. The first reading from Isaiah offers the story called to be servant. of the faithful servant Eliakim, who will be given the keys for his master's palace. Paul's brief reading from the Letter to the We will still do what is on our schedule, respond to all our Romans is a moving prayer filled with awe at the depth and commitments. The difference will be that we will do it unknowing ways of our Lord. In Matthew's Gospel, Jesus while we are more "in touch" with the Lord. Staying fo- asks his followers what people are saying about him. Then he cused and connecting with our Lord throughout the day is asks the real question, "Who do you say I am?" Peter's direct at the heart of prayer, "Raising our minds and hearts to answer, "You are the Christ" prompts Jesus' reply that Peter God." would be given the keys to the kingdom of heaven and would be the rock upon which his church would be built. And, at the end of each day, we give thanks for this gifted presence that day.

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Continued from page 4 Wedding Banns

John led such a pious and caring life, and because of his heroic vir- First Time tue, along with two miracles that occurred, he was found venerable by Pope Pius X. With the occurrence of two more miracles, Pope Ryan Maund and Amanda Himmelmann Pius XI beautified him as well as presided over his canonization.

Parish Social Ministry/Outreach NEWS First Holy Communion Confessions

631-369 -7142 August 27th, 2020 at 6:30 p.m. Office Hours: Tuesday 9:30am-12:30pm Food Pantry Hours: Thursday 11 am to 1 pm And

Covid News from PSM September 1st, 2020 at 6:30 p.m. Curbside food distribution has been continuous.

For the past 5 months Parish Social Ministry/Food Pan- try has been assisting community members that have been impacted by the pandemic as well as our regular clients.

Four priests, who were in the same class at the seminary, got Volunteer assistance was suspended through June and in together every year on the anniversary of their ordination. July we began limited volunteer assistance in the pantry. Distribution will continue curbside until further notice. On their twenty-fifth anniversary, they met at a fancy restaurant. Precautions such as disinfecting, mask wearing and dis- Midway through the meal, they noticed that one of their number tancing will continue to be observed as well. had become silent and withdrawn. When they asked him what was happening, he tearfully told them that he believed he might have a drinking problem. Our pantry was continuously helped by the generous support of the following donors: The others immediately offered their support, assuring him they would see that he received whatever treatment he needed and Boy and Girl scout troops, our group of anonymous do- would be present and supportive. nors of personal and cleaning products, individual do- After a short pause, one of the other priests commented on the nors who took it upon themselves to bring in food items, fact that in all their years of meeting they had never before talked the Peconic River Sportsman’s Club got creative and about such matters. He then admitted he might have a gambling had many boxes delivered to us. Our consistent con- problem. He had been taking money from the collection to bet at tracts with LI Cares and Island Harvest keep us supplied the track. with the basics. Again, the others were completely supportive.

Thank You from me for your continued support of our ministry! Yet another, overwhelmed by their honesty and support, shared Thank you from tearful families that had no other recourse but to he might be falling in love with the parish secretary. seek assistance. Blessings to all of you who have prayed and kept us spiritually up- Again, complete support from the group. lifted. PSM Volunteers and Martha Finally, they turned to face the fourth classmate and asked whether he was dealing with any problems. Pantry Requests Coffee, Tea, Jar Pasta Sauce He assured them that he wasn’t. “Except,” he disclosed, “I’m the biggest gossip in town.”

Thank you all for never forgetting our neigh- bors in need, without your generosity our work could not be done! Due to the recent Covid outbreak, if you are sick or feeling unwell, do not attend Mass. Father Jose is still streaming the 5:00 p.m. Mass every week on Martha Facebook and YouTube. Thank you!