Church of Saint Joseph

Garden City, New York - Diocese of Rockville Centre 130 Fifth Street Garden City, NY 11530 (516) 747-3535 Fax: (516) 746-0719 Parish website www.stjosephchurchgc.org

MASS SCHEDULE

SATURDAY 8:30 am Vigil Mass 5:00pm

SUNDAY Church 7:30am, 9:00am, 10:30am, 11:45am, 1:00pm, 5:30pm Auditorium 10:00am Family Mass (September – June)

MONDAY-FRIDAY Church 8:00am, 9:00am

Novena Mass - Convent Chapel Monday 8:00pm

RECONCILIATION Saturdays: 1:00 to 2:00 & 6:00 to 6:30pm. Also, 2nd, 3rd, & 4th Saturdays of the month 9:00 to 9:30 am. Eves of the Holy Days and First Fridays: 4:00 to 5:00pm.

PASTORAL LEADERSHIP

Reverend Msgr. James P. Swiader Pastor Reverend Joseph C. Scolaro Associate Pastor Reverend Prasanna W. Costa Associate Pastor Reverend John Gouldrick, CM John J. McKenna Deacon May 13, 2018 ~ Seventh Sunday of Easter Andrew Ciccaroni 1 Deacon

Seventh Sunday of Easter Church of Saint Joseph, Garden City, NY May 13, 2018 PARISH MEMBERSHIP SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE We welcome those who are new to our parish and Marriages should be arranged at least six months in ask them to call the Rectory for registration advance. Weddings may be celebrated Fridays: 5:00 PM, information. If you are moving, please notify the Saturdays: 11:00 AM, & 3:00 PM, Sundays: 3:45 PM Rectory. THE RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST RCIA is a process welcoming new members into the Saturday Evenings: In Church at 5:00 PM Roman Catholic Church. Any adult who is not baptized or Sundays: In Church at 7:30, 9:00, 10:30, 11:45 AM, is baptized in another Christian Church and wishes to 1:00 and 5:30 PM; in Auditorium at 10:00 AM become a Catholic, or is baptized in the Roman Catholic except July & August Church but seeks the Sacraments of Eucharist and Weekdays: 8:00, 9:00 AM Monday through Friday Confirmation, should call the Rectory at 747-3535. with 12:10 PM on First Fridays. Saturdays: 8:30 AM ADULT FAITH FORMATION Holy Days: See printed announcements prior to the Sister Kathleen Corr, O.P., Director 747-3535 Holy Day for the Mass Schedule. 130 Fifth Street Monday evenings: 8:00 PM with Miraculous Medal Novena in Convent Chapel, except legal holidays. MUSIC AND LITURGY

Mr. Joseph Cangialosi, Director 747-3535 SACRAMENT OF ANOINTING THE SICK 130 Fifth Street The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick takes place on the first Saturday of the month immediately PARISH SOCIAL MINISTRY following the 8:30 morning Mass. You may also call Anna Maria Sirianni, LMSW, Director 747-7120 the Rectory to arrange for anointing and Holy 120 Fifth Street Communion for the homebound.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION/CCD SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Mrs. Lisa Spohr, Director 741-7787 Saturdays: 1:00 to 2:00 and 6:00 to 6:30 PM 121 Fourth Street Also, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Saturdays of the month 9:00 to 9:30 AM. Eves of Holy Days and First Fridays: 4:00 SCHOOL to 5:00 PM. Mr. Brian Colomban, Principal 747-2730

Mrs. Regina Cioffi, Assistant Principal SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM 450 Franklin Avenue Baptism is celebrated on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, & 4th Sunday of the month at 2:30 PM. Please note: there STEWARDSHIP & FAMILY MINISTRY are no baptisms on the fifth Sunday of the month. Deacon Jack McKenna, Director 741-5632 Registration is necessary prior to the date of 121 Fourth Street Baptism. Instruction is required for parents of first children. YOUTH MINISTRY READINGS FOR THE WEEK Mr. Philip Malloy, Director 747-3535 130 Fifth Street Sunday: Acts 1:15-17, 20a, 20c-26/Ps 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20 [19a]/1 Jn 4:11-16/Jn 17:11b-19 Monday: Acts 1:15-17, 20-26/Ps 113:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 [8]/Jn DECEASED

15:9-17 Tuesday: Acts 20:17-27/Ps 68:10-11, 20-21 [33a]/Jn 17:1-11a Wednesday: Acts 20:28-38/Ps 68: 29-30, 33-35a, 35bc-36ab Please pray for the deceased [33a]/Jn 17:11b-19 members of our parish Thursday: Acts 22:30; 23:6-11/Ps 16:1-2a and 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11 [1]/Jn 17:20-26 Janet E. Hannon

Friday: Acts 25:13b-21/Ps 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20ab [19a]/Jn 21:15-19 Saturday: Morning: Acts 28:16-20, 30-31/Ps 11:4, 5 and 7 [7b]/Jn 21:20-25 2 Seventh Sunday of Easter Church of Saint Joseph, Garden City, NY May 13, 2018

MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK PRAYERS FOR THE SICK

“If anyone is sick among you, ask the community to pray” Sunday, May 13 - Seventh Sunday of Easter

7:30 AM Maura Gallagher Please pray for:

9:00 AM Carmen Rojas 10:00 AM Mothers Day Novena Robert Auricchio, Theresa Camoia, Rose Cangialosi, 10:30 AM Paul F. Callahan Joan Cashman, Greg Daly, Jack Gearns, John Gilsenan, 11:45 AM Margaret Clamser Barry M. Green, Joseph Honerkamp, Maria Kokiadis, 1:00 PM Marie Vecca, Michael Clarke, Mae Lagna, Patricia Lavalle, Luce Lona, Gerard McGee Sr., Joan Moran, Denise Bonomi, William Dimmling, John Ormond, Josephine Paccione, Tony Panzera, Kelly Overbeck, Mary Pascale Mercedes Perez, Chuck Parks, Kathy Ratner, Joanne Russo, Jim Ryan, Dr. James Sarno, Thomas Shea, Josephine 5:30 PM Ellen Nieman Vanderwater, Richard Wenzel, Dorothy Mary White

Monday, May 14 *Please note: only family members may request a person be 8:00 AM Mother’s Day Novena placed on the sick list. Subsequently, they will be removed 9:00 AM Thomas McDonough after 6 weeks. Please call the rectory if additional prayers 8:00 PM Novena Mass are required. Thank you.

Tuesday, May 15 8:00 AM Humphrey Patrick Brosnan Please note: on Sunday, May 20th First Holy 9:00 AM Mother’s Day Novena Communions will take place at the 10:30 AM and 1:00 PM Masses in the Church. Wednesday, May 16 8:00 AM Mother’s Day Novena The 11:45 AM Masses on those days will be 9:00 AM Vincenza Durante held in the Auditorium. Thursday, May 17 8:00 AM Father Charles Glavina

9:00 AM Ed Carney (25th Anniversary) SACRIFICAL GIVING

Friday, May 18 May 6, 2018 8:00 AM Mother’s Day Novena $18,232 9:00 AM James Haggerty

Saturday, May 19 8:30 AM Mother’s Day Novena WEEKEND MASS CELEBRANTS 5:00 PM Corroon Family, Anne Reilly, Emily Padilla, Vincent Murphy, Saturday, May 19 Patricia O’Donnell, Michele Cullen, 5:00 PM Father Prasanna Costa George & Barbara Cally Sunday, May 20 Sunday, May 20 - Pentecost Sunday 7:30 AM Father John Gouldrick 7:30 AM John Stone 9:00 AM Father Joseph Scolaro 9:00 AM Ida Luisi 10:00AM (Aud) Father Prasanna Costa 10:00 AM Mother’s Day Novena 10:30 AM Msgr. James Swiader 10:30 AM John McGreevy 11:45AM (Aud) Father Joseph Scolaro 11:45 AM Maureen Michel 1:00 PM Msgr. James Swiader 1:00 PM Ray Carew, Denise Bonomi, Matt Miller, 5:30 PM Father Prasanna Costa Nancy Craig, Conceilia M. DeBatto, William Cotter, Mary Margaria Adult Choir ~ 10:30 AM Mass 5:30 PM Parishioners of St. Joseph Girls Choir ~ 9:00 AM Mass on 5/13 Contemporary Ensemble ~ 10:00 AM Mass (Aud)

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St. Joseph Parish Directory Rectory Office………………………………………………………………………………516-747-3535 Receptionist ...... Ext. 10 Pastor: Reverend Msgr. James P. Swiader ...... Ext. 13 Associate Pastor: Reverend Joseph C. Scolaro ...... Ext. 20 Associate Pastor: Reverend Prasanna W. Costa ...... Ext. 19 Deacon Jack McKenna...... 516-741-5632 Deacon Andy Ciccaroni ...... 516-747-3535 Adult Faith Formation: Sr. Kathleen Corr, OP, Director ...... Ext. 12 Music and Liturgy: Mr. Joseph Cangialosi, Director ...... Ext. 29 Youth Ministry: Mr. Philip Malloy, Director ...... Ext. 30 Bulletin / Parish Registration: Mrs. Adrienne Kuczwaj ...... Ext. 10 Executive Secretary: Mrs. Barbara Stay …………………………………………………...Ext.16 Facilities’ Manager: Mr. Frank Mondo ...... Ext.18 St. Joseph School: Mr. Brian Colomban, Principal ...... 516-747-2730 Mrs. Regina Cioffi, Assistant Principal Religious Education: Mrs. Lisa Spohr, Director ...... 516-741-7787 Parish Social Ministry: Anna Maria Sirianni, LMSW, Director ...... 516-747-7120 Stewardship & Family Ministry: Deacon Jack McKenna, Director ...... 516-741-5632

Parish Trustees: Mr. Michael White • Mr. Thomas O’Brien

Pastoral Council: Mrs. Maria Franco • Mr. Richard Russell • Mr. Thomas Scaturro • Mrs. Dorry Tompsett • Mrs. Yvonne Varano • Mr. John Villanella

Emergency Anointing number (when Rectory Office is closed): 516-434-1516

PARISH MISSION STATEMENT

The Parish of St. Joseph celebrates the good news of Jesus Christ by giving witness to His real presence in our midst;

 We express our faith through prayer, especially in the celebration of the Eucharist and Sacraments.

 We continually form and strengthen our faith by embracing and teaching the word of God and trusting in the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

 We comfort and give hope to the sick and the grieving and reach out to those in spiritual or material need with compassion and love.

 We offer hospitality and warmly welcome all people to share the joy and peace of Jesus.

Founded on Faith Growing in Hope Serving in Love

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Dear Parishioners,

John V, John, VI, John VII, John XVIII—were brief Looking ahead to this week’s liturgies, I note and rather unremarkable. Others were quite that this Friday, May 18, is the memorial of St. John I, remarkable, but in ways that we might wish were Pope and Martyr. When those of us who can otherwise. remember beyond the recent three pontificates think of John VIII was the first pope to be a pope named John, immediately, irresistibly there assassinated, probably poisoned by some of his own comes to our minds’ eyes the familiar face of St. John court. John XI was an individual of deplorable XXIII – “Papa Giovanni,” as his own people personal morals, elected in his early twenties and a affectionately referred to him. He is, beyond doubt, the shameful embarrassment to his office and the Church “Pope John” we think of when we hear the name. But – and the same was unfortunately true of John XII. the pope and saint the Church commemorates this The best that can be said is that their personal failings Friday, was Pope John I – the first of many who would were just that: personal, confined to them alone. The bear that name on the Throne of Peter. In fact, no other deposit of faith, the teachings and integrity of the name has appeared so often in the Papacy as has Church were never compromised. (We thank the “John.” There have been 12 Pius’s, 13 Leo’s and 13 Holy Spirit for that.) John XIII was competent in his Innocent’s, 14 Clement’s, 16 Benedict’s, 16 Gregory’s, office; John XV the first pope to publicly canonize a and an ample supply of Alexander’s, Urban’s, Paul’s, saint; John XXI reigned for only 8 months; John and Boniface’s. But 23 John’s! (And that number does XXII, elected at the age of 72, reigned for 18 years, not include the two recent popes, who chose the name was an Avignon pope accused of heresy. “John” joined to “Paul.” But I am concentrating just All in all, not a powerfully inspiring on the Popes “John,” plain and simple.) I decided to catalogue. That is, of course, until we come to John inquire into the lives of some of the popes who have XXIII, who has been considered one of the saintliest borne that name, and my discoveries weren’t always examples of the Papacy at its best. And, note: his is that comforting. the name we remember, not the twenty-two who Some of that number were admirable men. preceded him, some who were pious, some who were John I was pope in the sixth century, a man of personal all too human in their frailty. But John XXIII was piety and courage. But his fate seemed to prefigure human, too – wonderfully human in his love, his much of the later papacy, as he became entangled in warmth, his gentleness, his humor, his humility, his imperial politics. He was cruelly misused, his trust vision, and his courage. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli cynically betrayed. Eventually he was imprisoned in came from humble origins; his family were farmers Ravenna by the Arian Emperor of the West, Theodoric, in Lombardy. He was elected pope on October 28, where he was maltreated and finally starved to death 1958, and died on June 3, 1963. He was beatified on (526). He was declared a martyr for his sufferings, and September 3, 2000, by Pope St. John Paul II, and his epitaph in Rome honors his as a “Victim for canonized on July 5, 2013, by Pope Francis. While Christ.” he is officially St. Pope John XXIII and his feast is John II (d. 535) is of note because he was the celebrated on October 11 (not the date of his death, first pope to take a name other than his own. (The June 3, 1963, but commemorating the opening of the second individual to do this was John III, Second Vatican Council), Catholics will probably coincidentally enough! And they were later emulated always recall him simply as “Good Pope John.” And by John’s XII and XIV.) This Pope chose “John” on perhaps that is the message for us – that goodness and his election to the Papacy because his own name was grace are what endure. The weaknesses are interred “Mercury,” and he thought it improper for a pope to with history and forgotten. But goodness, humility, bear a pagan name. Unfortunately his pontificate was joy and love will shine on in the hearts of those marked by severe, often acrimonious theological touched by their warmth. One person’s integrity, dispute between East and West in the Church, and compassion, and virtue can be stronger than the excommunications flew every which way across the venality, shallowness, and sin of any host of others. Adriatic. The importance of one good person! The pontificates of some others – John IV, and Msgr. Swiader 5

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STEWARDSHIP ~ A Way of Life RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Attention First-Grade Families!! If your child will be a first-grader for the 2018/2019 school year and you would like to register him/her for

Religious Education, our office will be open for

registration on Tuesday, May 22, Wednesday, May In today’s Gospel we listen to Jesus, praying to His 23, and Thursday, May 24, between the hours of Father. He prays for the well-being of His followers. He 10:00 am and 4:00 pm. prays that they may be protected, that they may know

God’s truth that they share in Christ’s joy. How do we You must be a registered parishioner of St. Joseph exercise stewardship over the gift of prayer? What is our Parish in order to register for first grade classes. attitude toward prayer? Do we speak to the Lord about Please bring a copy of your child’s Baptismal our personal concerns? Do we pray for others? Do we certificate with you. If you are unable to come to the listen to the Lord? Do we believe the Lord listens to us? office at the specified times, please call us at 741- It is easy to tell ourselves that we will get around to 7787 to make an appointment to come in to register living and growing as a follower of Jesus at some future for Religious Education. point in our lives when we are more settled, our children are older, and our jobs are more secure, and so on. In A Call to Join Our Ministry!! doing so, we delay our response to the Lord’s continual “A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes offer of salvation, mercy, forgiveness, and love. We others will be refreshed.” Proverbs 11:25 Have you minimize the impact of faith, falling deaf to God’s voice thought about sharing your talents and your faith with and blind to the needs of others. our Religious Ed students? Consider joining our

ministry of Religious Education. Contact the office To accept the urgent call of Christ is to hear the voice of for details on becoming a teacher, sub, teacher aide, the Lord, and to respond in the way in which we live hall monitor or parking lot attendant. now, not in some distant future. Christ does not call us in an abstract way, but instead within the particular Religious Ed Office Hours circumstances of our lives. This is not about some vague The office will be open during regular business hours and ideal future. It is about making decisions, discerning (9:30 to 4:30 Monday-Thursday). activities, and carrying out our lives as Christ’s people at home, in our workplace or school, in our parish, our Registration for Next Year cities and towns, and the in the world. Reregistration paperwork has just been mailed to our families. Please look for it in your mail. We have a In this Easter season, we celebrate Christ’s victory over new registration form this year. Please review it death. We are called again to draw others to the new life carefully. Thank you. that is offered in Jesus Christ. When we hear and respond to Christ’s urgent call, we witness to the profound impact of faith in our lives and we evangelize, First Holy Communion drawing others to a deep encounter with our Lord. We do this by stewarding our lives, gifts and blessings, and Our second-grade students will be resources, here and now, in this moment, in the very real receiving First Holy Communion circumstances of our lives. next weekend May 20th. God bless them! As Mother’s Day approaches there are so many Mothers that we can and should honor. Yet there are so many people for whom this is a hard day. May you bless and be blessed this Mother’s Day, affirming all the women Please note: on Sunday, May 20th First Holy Communions will take place at the 10:30 AM and in your life. Happy Mother’s Day! 1:00 PM Masses in the Church. Deacon Jack McKenna The 11:45 AM Masses on those days will be held in the Auditorium.

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Please fill out the form below and enclose your check FOCUS ON RELIGIOUS for ($45.00) per person. FREEDOM Payable to the “Knights of Columbus #15809” and From Catholics For Freedom of mail or drop off at the Church Rectory. Religion FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CALL: John Russo 516-384-4552 or Robert Matarazzo 917- Lobbying to Limit Religious Freedom 282-8963 or Will Havron 516-578-6452 A network of wealthy donors is funding a series of well-organized lobbying campaigns to restrict Tear Off legal protections for religious freedom at the ****************************************** federal, state, and local level. For some, the goal is to advance access to abortion and LGBT Please confirm attendance five (5) days before defensive driving course scheduled date. causes. For others, the goal is revolution and

tearing down Western institutions. One donor, Tim Gill, said, "We're going into the hardest states NAME: in the country. We're going to punish the wicked." ______Pennsylvania is a recent target.

Donor George Soros-funded attacks are aimed ADDRESS: at the small number of orthodox Catholic ______colleges and universities and focus on anonymous sources accusing faculty and some students of sexual assault. "We have long known E-MAIL ADDRESS: that George Soros is the single most influential ______donor to dissident and anti-Catholic organizations," said William Donohue, president TELEPHONE :______of the Catholic League. (crisismagazine.com,4/27/18; You will save Money on Car Insurance, as well as, thenewamerican.com,10/14/16; help Support the Knights of Columbus patheos.com,10/18/17) Council and Charities. Thank you, St. Joseph’s "If (destruction) ever reach us it must spring up Knights. amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If Coffee, water, donuts, cookies will be provided SACRIFICAL GIVING destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its courtesy of the Council. Due to the course time author and finisher.June As 26, a nation 2016 of freemen, we constraints, it is suggested that you bring your lunch. must live through all time or die by suicide." Abraham Lincoln 7

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WELCOME SEMINARIAN A MESSAGE FROM FATHER SCOLARO

CHRIS LOESTER It is with a heavy heart that I share with all of

We welcome Seminarian Christopher Loester to you that this June will be the end of my time at St.

St. Joseph Parish. Chris is a native Long Islander, Joseph’s Parish. Bishop Barres has asked that this June I move on to Notre Dame Parish in New Hyde born in Elmont. He grew up and currently resides Park as the pastor. My assignment here was supposed in Curé of Ars Parish, Merrick. He is a to be for another year, but the needs of the Church seminarian studying at St. Joseph Seminary, require that I fill the recently opened position. Yonkers, for the Diocese of Rockville Centre, Though I am excited for this new opportunity, having completed three years of major studies in I cannot begin to express the sorrow I feel in leaving preparation for ordination. His pastoral St. Joseph’s. The support and encouragement I have experience is extensive, and he comes to St. received from all of you in my first years of priesthood Joseph from a Pastoral Year in St. William the have helped me grow in ways I never imagined, and I Abbot Parish, Seaford. am confident my experience here will be a strong foundation for what God has in store for the years to

come. He will be with us May 13-July 27. He looks forward to ministry with the priests, staff, and I hope to thank you all in a more personal way as I enjoy these last weeks with you, and I look parishioners of St. Joseph. We look forward to forward to celebrating with you at my final Mass at the making his acquaintance in the weeks ahead. end of June. Until then I ask that you please pray for me, and know that I pray for all of you each day.

Yours in Christ, Fr Scolaro THANK YOU FROM PARISH SOCIAL MINISTRY ST. JOSEPH SCHOOL Thanks to everyone who contributed to this The St. Joseph School Community would like past weekend’s food drive—parishioners, St. to wish all mothers a Happy Mother’s Day. Joseph’s School students, food drive Thank you for all you do for us!! volunteers and coordinators. Your team work raised $1,819.54 and five full barrels of Congratulations to our Diocesan Respect Life food. The monetary donations will provide the Contest finalists: means to obtain supermarket gift cards for our registered clients as well as enable us to send Grade 8: Joseph Brugellis Bookmark contributions to Our Lady of Loretto PSM and Bella Guerra Photography the Queen of the Most Holy Rosary PSM. The Kiley Maher Essay Queen will also receive the food which we collected for their Pantry. Grade 7: Jonathan Desravines Video Clip Kathleen Maher Poetry

Thank you, one and all! Our next food drive These students were honored at the Respect weekend is scheduled for June 2 and 3 and will Life Youth Awards Celebration at Holy Trinity benefit RotaCare, a primary care medical clinic diocesan High School on May 2,2018. for the uninsured. You will recall that in the Our Annual Band Concert will take place on past, our June collection benefitted Anthony Monday, May 14 at 7:30pm in the Auditorium. House. Unfortunately that program is not operational at this time as the administration of Our Annual Social Studies Fair will take place the Society of St. Vincent de Paul charts the on Thursday, May 17 at 7:00pm in the future course of the house following the death Auditorium. last year of Deacon Pat Logsdon. The Drama Club of St. Joseph School will present “The Little Mermaid” on Friday, May 18 in our school Auditorium. 8

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LOOKING AHEAD . . . AND FURTHER MARY MAGDALENE; INSIGHTS FROM ANCIENT MAGDALA AHEAD! Panoramic Perspectives from Archaeology, Scripture and Historical Traditions Looking ahead . . . we are happy to announce that once again St. Joseph Parish will Speaker: Jennifer Ristine, consecrated woman of sponsor a pilgrimage to the Holy Land for our Regnum Christi. parishioners and friends. This pilgrimage is Jennifer Ristine has been living and serving at the scheduled for February 2019 – departing on recently excavated site of ancient Magdala in the

Thursday evening, February 14, and returning Holy Land since 2014. She has served in Magdala Sunday morning, February 24. To walk the land as the Visitors’ Center Coordinator and Director where Jesus walked is an unforgettable experience, of the Magdalena Institute. The shared research instilling memories that last a lifetime. The and reflections she offers is the fruit of questions pilgrims who traveled with us in 2015 and 2017 from countless visitors: Christian pilgrims, Jewish repeated recall how the Scriptures are never the visitors, and even people from different faith or no same after they have visited the shrines at -faith backgrounds. She gives context to the first Nazareth, Bethlehem, Mt. Tabor, Bethany, and century ambience of Magdala by presenting some Jerusalem, and have sailed on the Sea of Galilee or of the archaeological discoveries since the 1970’s stood on the Mount of the Beatitudes or walked the up to the present day. As a consecrated woman in Palm Sunday walk down the Mount of Olives or the Catholic Church, she also connects scriptural prayed at Calvary and the Tomb of Jesus. We texts to theological and spiritual reflections, travel in February so that when we return we are enticing the gospel imagination to bring alive the prepared for Lent and the liturgies of Holy Week, encounter between Jesus and Mary and Easter. Information is available at the doors of Magdalene. Finally, she offers a creative response the church or at the rectory or on the parish to the multitude of historical traditions and website. Places are limited, so we encourage those theories that have developed over the centuries. interested to respond promptly. Looking further ahead . . . parishioners The presentation is scheduled for Tuesday, have inquired about the Passion Play in 2020. To May 15 from 11:00-12:30pm respond to that interest, we can say that plans are Holy Family Parish Center 25 Fordham Ave, being made to travel in late September 2020 to see Hicksville, NY 11801 the world famous Passion Play. The tradition of Contact: Sal Restivo, 516-633-3423 the Passion Play is the fulfillment of a vow made [email protected] by the inhabitants of the tiny village of Oberammergau in the Bavarian Alps in 1634. They promised that if their village was spared the ravages of the Black Death – the Plague – they would present a portrayal of the Events of Holy WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE Week, Palm Sunday through Easter, once every ten ENCOUNTER years. The village was spared, and the vow has Happy Mother’s Day! Allow Jesus to be been kept for almost 400 years. We will include in Lord of your marriage relationship by that trip a cruise on the Rhine and visits to attending a Worldwide Marriage Encounter Innsbruck and Salzburg, Austria; Vaduz, Weekend. The next Weekends are Nov 16- Lichtenstein; Lucerne, Switzerland; Munich, 18, 2018 in Huntington, NY and Feb 8-10, Heidelberg, Rudesheim, and the Wieskirche and 2019 in Huntington, NY. For more the castle of Neuschwanstein, Germany, among information,SACRIFICAL call John & Toni GIVING Torio at 877- other sites. Because tickets for the Passion Play 697-9963 or visit them at http:// are in high demand, our agents need to know well www.wwmeli.orgJune. 26, 2016 in advance how many of our parishioners and their friends are interested. Brochures outlining this pilgrimage will be available in the near future. 9

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