Parish Staff

The Piarist Fathers Pastor Rev. David Powers Sch.P. Parochial Vicars Rev. Andrew Berinyuy, Sch.P. Rev. Luis Alberto Cruz, Sch.P. Very Rev. Fernando Negro, Sch.P. Rev. Richard Wyzykiewicz Sch.P. Parish Staff Parish Secretary Mrs. Rosemarie Ortiz Business Manager Anne Kathy Rice Facilities Manager Lillian Nazario saint Music Director Mr. Daniel Ambe Musicians Mr. Jim Donaldson Helena Mr. Alex Henriquez parish September—October Bronx, NY 2019 Mass Schedule (Horario de Misas) St. Helena’s School (718) 892-3234 http://www.sthelenaelementary.org Early Childhood (Pre-K for All) Elementary School (Grades K-8) Principal: Mr. Richard Meller 2050 Benedict Avenue Bronx, New York 10462 High School: Monsignor Scanlan H.S. (718) 430-0100 Arrangements must be http://www.scanlanhs.edu/ made at the Rectory for Baptismal Principal: Mr. Kris Keelin Class. Bring a copy of the child’s Birth 915 Hutchinson River Parkway Certificate and Godparent documents. Bronx, New York 10465 Arrangements for weddings should be made as soon as St. Helena Rectory: possible at the Rectory. 1315 Olmstead Avenue Bronx, N.Y. 10462 All Catholics Phone: (718) 892-3232 who live within the parish boundaries should fill out a registration card at the Fax: (718) 892-7713 Rectory. www.churchofsthelena.com Email: [email protected] Alumni: [email protected] Alumni: [email protected] ST. L BRONX, Our Lady of the Rosary - October 7 Bl. John Henry Cardinal Newman - October 9 Monday is the Feast of Our Lady of the John Henry Newman will be canonized next Sunday by Pope Rosary, and we will pray the Rosary in Francis, and St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers will sponsor a English following the NOON Mass and in symposium on him on November 1 & 2. Newman was one of the Spanish following the 7:30PM Spanish Mass. great Christian intellectuals of the nineteenth century and was The feast of Our Lady of the Rosary was born in London in 1801. His spiritual quest began in adolescence, instituted to honor Mary for the Christian and he later went on to study theology at Oxford University. victory over the Turks at Lepanto on Subsequently, he became an Anglican pastor, a fellow of Oriel October 7, 1571. Pope St. Pius V and all College, and leader of the Oxford Movement which studied the Christians had prayed the Rosary for Catholic roots of the faith in England. In 1839, Newman began to victory. This victory saved Europe from lose confidence in the cause. The study of the Monophysites he being overrun by the forces of Islam. The undertook that summer raised doubts about the validity of the via Rosary, or the Psalter of the Blessed Virgin media, and he soon became truly convinced that Rome, not Mary, is one of the best prayers to Mary, Canterbury, was the home of the true Church. He expressed his the Mother of God. Pope Francis invites all new views in Tract Ninety, in which he argued that the Thirty-Nine families to pray the Rosary daily for the Articles, the doctrinal statement of the Church of England, could intentions of the Pope, the mission of the Church, and peace. "It is be interpreted in a way that supported Roman Catholic doctrine. as if every year Our Lady invited us to rediscover the beauty of The Tract was published on February 27, 1841; its censure by the this prayer, so simple and profound." The Rosary, which is a Oxford authorities on March 15 was a severe blow to the Oxford "contemplative and Christocentric prayer, inseparable from the Movement and led to Newman's rapid withdrawal from Anglican meditation of Sacred Scripture," is "the prayer of the Christian life. In 1842, while writing his "Essay on the Development of who advances in the pilgrimage of faith and in the following of Christian Doctrine", he began to mature his conversion to Jesus, preceded by Mary," said the Pontiff. Catholicism. Between July 1841 and September 1843, he left Lepanto, perhaps the most complete victory ever gained over the the British Critic, moved from Oxford and joined a semi-monastic Ottoman Empire, on October 7, 1571, is commemorated by the community at Littlemore, retracted the anti-Catholic statements he invocation "Help of Christians," inserted in the Litany of Loretto. At had published, and resigned his position at St. Mary’s. He was Belgrade, the Turks were defeated on the Feast of Our Lady ad admitted into the Catholic Church in 1845 and ordained a Catholic Nives in 1716. A second victory gained that year on the Octave of priest in Rome on 1 June 1847. Following his ordination, and with the Assumption determined Pope Clement XI to command the the encouragement of Pope Pius IX, he founded the first Oratory Feast of the Rosary to be celebrated by the universal Church. Leo of St. Philip Neri in England. In 1852 he was appointed rector of XIII added the invocation "Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, pray the Catholic University of Dublin, Ireland, a post he held until for us," to the Litany of Loretto. The Feast is, in reality, a great 1854. Pope Leo XIII made him a cardinal in 1879, and he died in festival of thanksgiving for the signal and countless benefits 1890 at the Oratory of Edgbaston. The lengthy process for his bestowed on Christendom through the Rosary of our blessed beatification began in 1958. Newman's miraculous intercession in Queen. In modern times successive popes have urged the faithful the cure of Dean Jack Sullivan, who suffered a serious complaint to pray the Rosary. It is a form of contemplative prayer, a mental of the spinal column, was officially recognized and approved by and vocal prayer which brings down God’s blessing on the Church. Pope Benedict XVI in July 2009. It is a biblically inspired prayer which is centered on meditation on the salvific mysteries of Christ in union with Mary, who was so Saint John XXIII - October 11 closely associated with her Son in His redeeming activity. Although few people had as great an impact on the 20th century as Pope John XXIII, he avoided the limelight as much as St. Denis - October 9 possible.The firstborn son of a farming family in Sotto il Monte, St. Denis was born in Italy. In 250, he was sent to France with six near Bergamo in northern Italy, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was other missionary bishops by Pope Fabian. Denis became the first always proud of his down-to-earth roots. In Bergamo’s diocesan bishop of Paris. He was beheaded in 258 with the priest Rusticus seminary, he joined the Secular Franciscan Order. and the deacon Eleutherius at Catulliacum, now Saint-Denis. One After his ordination in 1904, Fr. Roncalli returned to Rome for of the many legends about his torture and death was that his canon law studies. He soon worked as his bishop’s secretary, body carried his severed head some distance from his execution Church history teacher in the seminary, and as publisher of the site. St. Denis is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers who was diocesan paper. His service as a stretcher-bearer for the Italian invoked particularly in the Middle Ages against the Black Plague. army during World War I gave him firsthand knowledge of war. In St. John Leonardi - October 9 1921, Fr. Roncalli was made national director in Italy of the St. John Leonardi (1543-1609), a zealous Italian apostle, founded Society for the Propagation of the Faith. He also found time to the Congregation of the Mother of God, whose priest-members teach patristics at a seminary in the Eternal City. In 1925, he traveled throughout Tuscany urging the people to a stronger became a papal diplomat, serving first in Bulgaria, then in Turkey, interest in their religion. Fr. John Leonardi longed to convert and finally in France. During World War II, he became well pagans, but his spiritual director, St. Philip Neri, told him to acquainted with Orthodox Church leaders. With the help of remain in Italy. So instead, he founded a seminary in Rome to Germany’s ambassador to Turkey, Archbishop Roncalli helped train young men for the priesthood from all the mission lands. save an estimated 24,000 Jewish people. In 1952, Roncalli was offered a new position, this time as Patriarch of Venice. At the He was born in Tuscany, Italy in 1541, during the time of great same time he assumed his new title, Roncalli became the Cardinal upheaval in the Church due to Martin Luther. He studied to be a -Priest of Santa Prisca. He assumed his new responsibilities on pharmacist, then became a priest. As a young priest, he devoted March 15, 1953. Roncalli's papal predecessor died on October 9, himself to teaching catechism to youths. In 1574, he founded the 1958 and he was soon summoned to Rome where he was to Order of the Clerks Regular of the Mother of God of Lucca, a participate in the process of selecting a new pope. The College congregation of diocesan priests. For a while, he joined his eventually settled on Roncalli for election and he accepted, saying community with the one founded by St. Joseph Calasanz, but the "I will be called John," a surprising choice because of that name's two charisms were different and eventually, each community association with schism. As Pope John XXIII, he immediately became officially recognized by the Church. He suffered many began to change the culture in the Vatican. On Christmas, 1958, tribulations for this work, including exile. His contemporary, St. he resumed the papal practice of making visits to the community Philip Neri, was a great friend and spiritual guide and helped him within the official Diocese of Rome.

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