The Shrine and Parish Church of the Holy Innocents

“The Little Around the Corner” at the crossroads of the world

128 West 37th St. (Just West of Broadway) New York City 10018 Founded 1866 Schedule Rev. Fr. James L. P. Miara, M. Div., Pastor Perpetual

Rev. Fr. Louis Van Thanh, Senior Priest Weekdays following the 7:30 a.m. and 12:15 & 1:15 p.m. Rev. Fr. Oliver Chanama, In Residence Masses and at 5:50 p.m. and on Saturday following the 12 Rev. Fr. Andrew Bielak, In Residence noon and 1:00 p.m. Masses. Rev. Fr. Daniel Sabatos, Visiting Celebrant Monday: Miraculous Medal Tel: (212) 279-5861/5862 Tuesday: St. Anthony and St. Anne Wednesday: Our Lady of Perpetual Help and St. Joseph www.shrineofholyinnocents.org Thursday: Infant of Prague, St. Rita and St. Thérèse Friday: “The Return Crucifix” and the Passion Holy Sacrifice of the Saturday: Our Lady of Lourdes and Our Lady of Fatima Sunday: Holy Innocents (at Vespers) Weekdays: 7:00 & 7:30 a.m.; 12:15 & 1:15 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. (Tridentine Latin) Devotions

Vespers and Benediction: Saturday: 12 noon and 1:00 p.m. (Tridentine Latin) Sunday at 2:30 p.m. (Tridentine Latin) and 4:00 p.m. Vigil/Shopper’s Mass Holy : Weekdays at 11:55 a.m. and 5:20 p.m. Sunday: 9:00 a.m. (Tridentine Low Mass), Saturday at 12:35 p.m. 10:30 a.m. (Tridentine High Mass), Sunday at 2:00 p.m. 12:30 p.m. Divine Mercy Chaplet: Weekdays at 3:00 p.m.

Holy Days of Obligation: (during Lent):

Vigil at 5:15 p.m. Fridays at 12:45 p.m. 7:00 & 7:30 a.m.; and after 6:00 p.m. Mass

8:00 a.m. (Tridentine Latin); 11:15 a.m.; Holy Hour of Reparation to the Sacred Heart: 12:15, 1:15 & 5:15 p.m.; First Friday of the month from 7:00 p.m.- 6:00 p.m. (Tridentine Latin High Mass) 8:00 p.m.

Confessions First Saturday Devotions: Rosary, 15 minute meditation, prayers & Weekdays: 7:30-8:30 a.m.; 12 noon-1:30 p.m.; Benediction following 1:00 p.m. Mass 5:15-5:35 p.m. 2000 Hail Marys: Saturday: 12 noon-1:00 p.m. and 3:15-3:45 p.m. Second Saturday of the month from 6:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.

Sunday: 9:45-10:30 a.m. and 12 noon-12:30 p.m. Church Hours And anytime upon request or by appointment Monday-Friday: 6:30 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. Exposition Saturday: 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. of the Most Sunday: 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Weekdays from 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.- 5:45 p.m. Parish Office/Gift Shop Hours Benediction Monday-Friday: 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. BAPTISMS Saturday: 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

3rd & 4th Saturdays at 11:00 a.m.; Sundays at 1:30 p.m. Sunday: 9:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

LATIN CORNER The Most Holy Calendar

Body & June 14 - External of Corpus Christi June 14, 2020 1st Class

June 15 - Ss. Vitus, Modestus & Crescentia The following Announced Mass Intentions will 4th Class be celebrated this week in the private Masses June 16 - Feria of the parish priests: 4th Class

Purgatorial Society June 17 - St. Gregory Barbarigo, Bishop & Confessor Paul Boakye & Siblings (d) 3rd Class

*************** June 18 - St. Ephraem, Confessor & Doctor with

Ana Teresa Garcia (d) Commemoration of Ss. Mark and Marcellian Kevin Patrick Moffitt (L) 3rd Class

Rudolf Arndt (d) June 19 - Sacred Heart of Jesus Margaret M. Brennan (d) 1st Class Sylvia Morra (L) June 20 - Our Lady on Saturday *************** 3rd Class In Thanksgiving to Our Lady Next Sunday Grace Millane and Victoria Shafer (d) Rosa & Leonardo and Romana Mendoza (d) June 21 - Third Sunday after Pentecost Soledad Sumido (d) 2nd Class *************** ALTAR FLOWERS DONOR The Mastandrea Family and Edward Hasbrouck (L) In Thanksgiving to Our Lady of Immaculate Conception “I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house; Living & Deceased Family of Carmine & Lena Salerno and the place where thy glory dwelleth.”

Barthlemeuw J. Derrane (d) - Psalm 26:8

Avelina Obmaces (d) If anyone is interested in donating *************** the Altar Flowers a for a special in- Adriana Garrido (L) tention or in memory of someone, Catherine M. Alfone (d) for any of the major feast days in Peter & Joan M Coyle (L) June, please contact the Parish Of- Eleanor L. Panes (L) Birthday fice. The donation is $250.00 for two arrangements. Francoise Marie (d) *************** MEMORIAL OPPORTUNITIES All Holy in Purgatory Rose Alimento (d) In addition to the offering of the Holy Sacrifice of Intentions of the Sacred Heart the Mass for the living and deceased, the following In Honor and Thanksgiving to the Sacred Heart may also be offered for the week, Sunday James Barrett (L) to Saturday: *************** 1) Sanctuary Candle burning before Our Lord in Servant of God Mary Grace Bellotti The O’Donnell Family (d) the tabernacle - $25.00 Thomas & Mary McBride (d) 2) Altar Candles - $50.00

3) Altar Bread - $40.00

\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ + / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / 4) Altar Wine - $30.00 5) Adoration Candles - $65.00 Altar Offerings 6) Altar Flowers - $250.00 for 2 arrangements

Sanctuary Candle Please contact the rectory office if you are inter-

In Thanksgiving ested in offering any of these items.

by Helen Wu The intention will be published weekly in the Parish

bulletin.

FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI

The is celebrated in the Catholic Church on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday or, in some places such as the United States, it is transferred by an Indult to the following Sunday. The feast was institut- ed to honor the Lord’s presence in the Most Blessed Sacrament. Since Holy Thursday is so close to Good Friday, our minds are turned with sadness to the Passion of the Lord so joy over the institution of the Holy can- not be sufficiently expressed, thus the necessity of this Feast.

There were 2 separate miracles that lead to the institution of the feast in the Catholic Church:

The Vision of St Juliana of Cornillon

St Juliana had a great devotion to the Blessed Sacrament from her youth and longed for a special feast to celebrate devotion to Our Lord’s Presence in the Blessed Sacrament. The saint had a vision of the Church under the appearance of a full moon which had one dark spot. During the vision, she heard a mysterious, heavenly voice explain that the moon represented the Church at that time, and the dark spot symbolised the fact that a great feast in honour of the Blessed Sacrament was missing from the liturgical calendar. St Juliana confessed the vision to Bishop Robert de Thorete, then Bishop of Liège, and Jacques Pantaléon, who later became Pope Urban IV. Bishop Robert was favourably impressed and called a synod in 1246 which authorised the celebration of a feast dedicated to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament – Corpus Christi – to be held in the diocese in the following year.

Eucharistic Miracle at Bolsena

Fr Pietro da Praga had grown lukewarm in his love of the Eucharist and had doubts as to whether the Eucharist was the real Body and Blood of Our Lord. In 1263, whilst celebrating Holy Mass in the Church San- ta Cristina in Bolsena, at the breaking of the Bread, the precious Blood of Our Lord flowed from the Host, covering the altar cloth, corporal and the floor. Pope Urban IV, who was residing at Orvieto at the time, ordered that the precious cloth, covered with the precious blood, was to be brought to the Church of St Mary in Orvieto where it is still venerated even today.

SOLEMNITY OF THE SACRED HEART

The annual Global Rosary Relay for the sanctification of priests on the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on June 19, 2020 will be prayed once again to recognize and bless the work of priests serving the faithful the world over. Each of the participating prayer locations in 85+ countries prays a particular mystery of the Rosary at a particular half hour on the day in thanksgiving to God for our priests and to implore the protection and lov- ing care of Our Lady, Mother of all priests, for all her priestly sons. With the coming of midnight on the June 19, 2020, the entire world, by then, will have been encircled in prayer for our priests on this The An- nual Rosary Relay Day. It was the great Irish priest Fr. Patrick Peyton who never tired of saying that: ‘The Family that prays together stays together.’ As the family of the Church, you are invited to join your prayers to the pray- ers of millions throughout the world on June 19, 2020. It is an opportunity for us to raise our hearts to God for all priests in the exercise of their ministry; that they will be blessed, through our prayers, with God’s grace for their priesthood; that in this worldwide communion of prayer for them, they may experience our gratitude and support; and finally that they will persevere in unity with Christ and his Church and shepherd the Lord’s flock to the safe pastures of his Kingdom.

Holy Innocents Church will join this Global Rosary on Friday, June 19 at 7:30 p.m. via our zoom meetng. Following the 6:30 p.m. 54-day we will recite the Mysteries of Light at 7:30 p.m. for the sanctification of the clergy.

What you need to join: https://zoom.us/j/5182168942?pwd=YnlUbTR0aytQSi9nZmdKNnk0VEQ1Zz09

Meeting ID: 518 216 8942 Password: 5gFd8U One tap mobile +19294362866,,5182168942##

Proclamation of the Feast of Corpus Christi.

On the 11 August 1264, Pope Urban IV published the Bull “Transiturus de hoc mundo”, in which, after having extolled the love of Our Saviour as expressed in the Holy Eucharist, he ordered the annual celebration of the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, in the universal Church. The bull also granted many to the faithful for the attendance at Mass and at the Office. To celebrate the feast St wrote the very beautiful liturgy celebrated on the Solemnity. The , Adoro te Devote is a beautiful Eucharistic Hymn also written by the Angelic Doctor:

Adoro te devote I devoutly adore you

Adóro te devóte, látens Déitas, I devoutly adore you, O hidden Deity, Quæ sub his figúris, vere látitas: Truly hidden beneath these appearances. Tibi se cor meum totum súbjicit, My whole heart submits to you, Quia, te contémplans, totum déficit. And in contemplating you, It surrenders itself completely.

Visus, tactus, gustus, in te fállitur, Sight, touch, taste are all deceived in their judgment of you, Sed audítu solo tuto créditur: But hearing suffices firmly to believe. quidquid díxit Dei Fílius; I believe all that the Son of God has spoken; Nil hoc verbo veritátis vérius. There is nothing truer than this word of .

In cruce latébat sola Déitas, On the cross only the divinity was hidden, At hic látet simul et humánitas: But here the humanity is also hidden. Ambo támen crédens átque cónfitens, Yet believing and confessing both, Peto quod petívit latro pœnitens. I ask for what the repentant thief asked.

Plagas, sicut Thomas, non intúeor, I do not see the wounds as Thomas did, Deum támen meum te confíteor. But I confess that you are my God. Fac me tibi sémper mágis crédere, Make me believe more and more in you, In te spem habére, te dilígere. Hope in you and love you.

O memoriále mortis Dómini, O memorial of our Lord's death! Panis vivus, vitam præstans hómini, Living bread that gives life to man, Praesta Meae menti de Te vivere Grant my to live on you, Et te illi Semper dulce sápere. And always to savor your sweetness.

Pie pellicáne, Jesu Dómine, Lord Jesus, Good Pelican, Me immúndum munda tuo sánguine, wash my filthiness and clean me with your blood, Cujus una stilla salvum fácere, One drop of which can free Totum mundum quit ab ómni scélere. the entire world of all its sins.

Jesu, quem velátum nunc aspício, Jesus, whom now I see hidden, Oro fíat illud, quod tam sítio: I ask you to fulfill what I so desire: Ut, te reveláta cernens fácie, That the sight of your face being unveiled Visu sim beátus tuæ glóriæ. Amen. I may have the happiness of seeing your glory. Amen.

The Importance of

“Do you realize that Jesus is there in the Blessed Sacrament expressly for you, for you alone? He burns with the desire to come into your heart.” “Frequently, only silence can express my prayer. However, this Di- vine Guest of the tabernacle understands all, even the silence of a child's soul filled with gratitude. When I am before the tabernacle, I can say only one thing to Our Lord: 'My God, you know that I love you' and I feel my prayer does not tire Jesus." “To bear the exile of this valley of tears I need the glance of my Divine Savior. This glance full of love has revealed its charms to me. It has made me sense the happiness of Heaven. My Jesus smiles at me when I sigh to Him. Then I no longer feel my trial of faith. My God’s Glance, His ravishing Smile, That is Heaven for me!” “How I loved the feasts!…I especially loved the processions in honor of the Blessed Sacra- ment. What a joy it was for me to throw flowers beneath the feet of God!…I was never so happy as when I saw my roses touch the sacred Monstrance.” - St. Therese of Lisieux

“I need nothing in this world in order to be happy. I only need to see Jesus in Heaven whom I now see and adore on the altar with the eyes of faith.” - St. Dominic Savio

ST. GREGORY BARBARIGO FATHER MICHAEL McGIVNEY TO BE BEATIFIED

St. Gregory Barbarigo was born on Sep- During a May 26 meeting with Cardinal tember 16, 1625 of a very old and dis- Angelo Becciu, the prefect of the Con- tinguished Venetian family. A brilliant gregation for the Causes of Saints, Pope student, he embraced a diplomatic Francis approved a miracle attributed career and accompanied the Venetian to the intercession of Fr. Michael J. Ambassador, Contarini, to the Congress McGivney, the founder of the Knights of Munster in 1648. Then he became of Columbus. The miracle involved an a priest and was soon thereafter conse- unborn child in the United States who was healed in utero of a life-threatening condition in 2015 crated as the first Bishop of Bergamo by Pope Alexander after his family prayed to Fr. McGivney. VII. Later on he was elevated to the rank of Cardinal and also given authority over the diocese of Padua. He guid- Fr. McGivney was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, in ed his flock with pastoral wisdom and deep understand- 1852, and played a critical role in the growth of the Church in the United States in the latter part of the 19th ing. St. Gregory Barbarigo worked unceasingly in carrying century. After his ordination in Baltimore in 1877, he out the reforms set forth by the . served a largely Irish-American and immigrant communi- Through his efforts the seminaries of both Bergamo and ty in New Haven. Padua were substantially enlarged. At Padua he also add- Amid an anti-Catholic climate, he established the Knights ed a library and a printing press. He was a frontrunner in to provide spiritual aid to Catholic men and financial both the 1689 and 1691 papal conclaves as he had distin- help for families that had lost their breadwinner. guished himself for his diplomatic and scholastic ser- vice. He became a noted scholar for his distinguished Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson said: “Fr. McGivney has inspired generations of Catholic men to roll up their learning and as an able pastor for his careful attention to sleeves and put their faith into action. He was decades pastoral initiatives and frequent parish visitations. He ahead of his time in giving the laity an important role died on June 18, 1697. Barbarigo's beatification was cel- within the Church.” ebrated in 1761 under Pope Clement XIII, while Pope John XXIII canonized the late cardinal in 1960; the latter DONORS NEEDED pope held Barbarigo as a great role model and fostered a devotion to him since the pope had hailed from Bergamo. We are in need of donors for a new microphone for His liturgical feast is celebrated on June 17th. the High Altar for use at the Ad Orientem Novus Or- do Masses as well as for a lectern for the sedilia for priests who wish to begin the celebration of Holy Mass there. If you are interested in contributing to this, please contact the Parish Office.

Eucharistic Holy Hour of Reparation in honor of the Goal for Holy Innocents - $57,000 Holy Face of Jesus

Participation Goal - 67 Every Third Tuesday of the month Following the 6:00 p.m. Mass Pledged to date - $18,893

Number of donors - 54 Next Holy Hour: To be determined

Still needed - $38,107 CONTINUED PARISHIONERS DONOR SUPPPORT If you have not made your pledge/gift to this year’s Appeal, please do so today! Thank you for your gen- During these unsettling times, Parishioners and Do- erosity. nors can make their weekly contribution online which is available at https:// innocents.churchgiving.com or by calling the fol- COLLECTION REPORT lowing number:

Regular Collection (mailed) - 6/07/20 $1,820.00  WeShare Donor Customer Service Phone Number: Online Contributions $2,235.00 800-950-9952 (press #3 and then press #2) Shrines and Candles $ 474.50  WeShare Customer Service Email: [email protected] Regular Collection - 06/09/19 $6,616.95  WeShare Donor FAQ: WeShare Donor Support Shrines and Candles $2,807.00 We deeply appreciate your support and generosity Your generous contribution to your Parish is to your Parish. Please email the Parish Office at greatly appreciated! [email protected] if you have any May the Good Lord reward you abundantly! questions.

Often children who have died before birth have no grave The Shrine to the Unborn or headstone, and sometimes not even a name. At The Blessed by Cardinal O’Connor on December 28, 1993 Church of The Holy Innocents, we invite you to name your child(ren) and to have the opportunity to have your baby's name inscribed in our "BOOK OF LIFE". Here, a candle is always lit in their memory. All day long people stop to pray. On the first Monday of every month, our 12:15pm Mass is celebrated in honor of these children and for the comfort of their families. We pray that you will find peace in knowing that your child(ren) will be remembered at the Shrine and honored by all who pray here.

We will inscribe the names of babies who have died before and at birth in our Book of Life, and as always, we invite you to visit the Shrine if you are in New York City.

SUBWAY ROSARY

The Shrine is dedicated in Memory of the Children Our Regina Mundi Praesidium of the Legion of Mary Who Have Died Unborn conducts a Subway Rosary on the second and fourth We invite you to name your child(ren) Saturdays of the month. All are invited to join in this and provide the opportunity to have evangelization effort to spread devotion to Our Lady. your babyʹs name inscribed in our “ ʺ. Anyone interested in joining is asked to gather at Holy Book of Life Innocents by 10:00am. The group will then proceed to 42nd and Broadway Time Square subway station. We will be located by the Time Square Shuttle downstairs. We recite 20 decades of the Holy Rosary and return back to Holy Innocents around 12:15. Come for all or part of the Subway Rosary.

Upcoming Subway

June 27 July 11

VOLUNTEER SINGERS NEEDED

"Be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms, , and spiritual canticles, singing and LEGION OF MARY – REGINA MUNDI making melody to the Lord with all your heart, al- ways and for everything giving thanks..." The Holy Innocents Legion of Mary group - Ephesians Ch 5. meets each Monday in the Parish Hall fol- lowing the 6 p. m. Mass. For more infor- The Shrine & Parish Church of Holy Innocents Volun- mation on joining this ministry as an ac- teer choir needs your voice! All ages welcome. We tive or auxiliary member please contact meet on Sundays at 9:30am in the Church Hall. Melissa Becker at: [email protected] Please email Rachel Aldridge at Al- [email protected] if you are interested in join- READINGS FOR THE WEEK ing. No prior experience necessary.

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