Saint Pancras Roman Catholic Church 72-22 68th Street—Glendale, New York 11385 (t) 718-821-2323 (f) 718-417-8021 (w) www.StPancras-Queens.org

Pastoral Staff Rev. Msgr. Steven J. Aguggia, J.C.L, Administrator Email: [email protected] Rev. Wladyslaw Kubrak, Parochial Vicar Email: [email protected] Mr. Robert Buonaspina, Director of Music Email: [email protected] Mr. Juan C. Perez, Pastoral Associate Email: [email protected]

Administrative Staff

Mr. George Escobar, Plant Manager

New Rectory Office Hours Sacrament of Reconciliation Monday—Tuesday—Wednesday Saturdays 3:30PM—4:00PM or by appointment. 9:00AM—12:00PM 1:00PM—7:00PM Sacrament of Baptism Thursday—Friday Fourth Sunday of each month at 1 pm (except during the 9:00AM—12:00PM Season of Lent), or when otherwise noted. Please call the 1:00PM—5:00PM rectory to make an appointment at least one month in Saturday advance. 9:00AM—2:00PM

Sunday Chrzest w jezyku polskim w kazda pierwsza niedziele By Appointment miesiaca o godzinie 13:00. Przypominamy iz rodzice Mass Schedule Proszacy o chrzest swojego dziecka powinni byc Weekday—8:30AM zarejestrowanymi parafianami sw. Pankracego. Saturday Vigil—4:30PM Sunday Mass— Sacrament of Matrimony 8:00AM—English Marriage arrangements must be made at least six (6) 9:30AM—Polish months prior to the proposed wedding date. Please call 11:00AM—English the rectory to make an appointment. Please log on to Devotions www.pre-cana.org for complete information about marriage and St. Anne Novena preparation in our Diocese. Mondays at 8:15AM Prayed Daily after the 8:30AM Mass Catholic Cemeteries Eucharistic Adoration For information and available options, please call Each 1st Friday of the month from October to 718.894.4888. June following the morning mass. December 6, 2020 2nd Sunday of Advent Page 2

Memorial Gifts Week of December 6, 2020

ANNOUNCED MASS INTENTIONS

Memorials are available Saturday, December 5, 2020 (FIRST SATURDAY)

8:30 am Padre Pio Prayer Group 4:30 pm For the People of the Parish INSTALLATION MASS FOR The 2021 Mass Book is OPEN. MSGR. AGUGGIA Please stop in to reserve a Mass. There are weekly Memorials available of : Sunday, December 6, 2020 Bread, Wine and Candles ($25), 8:00 am Sanctuary Lamps ($25); 9:30 am Joseph Szurnicki (Wife) The St. Ann Shrine Lamp ($25); 11:00 am Frankie & Vita Scaturro—25th Flowers ($100); Anniversary (Sister & Ringing of the Bells ($25). Brother)

Monday, December 7, 2020 8:30 am Nicolo Marino (Pasqualina Marino) Please Pray for the Sick:

Tuesday, December 8, 2020 SOLEMNITY OF THE Joseph Scarfo, Bella Brunetti, Sharon & Barney OF THE B.V.M. Magro, Eleanor Eveline, Kathleen Eveline, 8:30 am For the people of the parish Monica Giglietto, George Nolde, Sylvia & Robert 12 noon Mavis Nolan—1st Anniversary (Olive Nolde, Manuel Fernandez, Ryder Chevalley, & Pat) Sharon Yankow, Noah Seranno, Mike Humenik, 7:00 pm POLISH MASS Barbara Frankel, Loretta Heuser, Anissa Johnson, William & Donna Nolde, Wednesday, December 9, 2020 Russel Singleman, Paula Boettcher, Rose Tesoriere, Janet Seminara, Tom Hegyi, Elena Barcelona, 8:30 am Souls in Purgatory, Burgio Fam. & Frank Crifasi, Jeannette Vilardi, Caterina Aprea, Toma (Grazia) Virginia Wasnieski, Raffaela Cifaldi, Jeannine Gramstadt, Thomas Marutollo, Thursday, December 10, 2020 Daniel Portalatin, Antonia Lahara, 8:30 am Rose D’Amato (John) and those suffering from COVID-19. Friday, December 11, 2020

8:30 am Nicolo Marino (Pasqualina Marino) Please Pray for the Faithful Departed:

Saturday, December 12, 2020 The souls in Purgatory 8:30 am 4:30 pm Fredrich & Maria Hoenigmann (Elfi) May they rest in peace! Amen

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If you’ve pledged, THANK YOU. If not, please consider it. Every gift helps!

You can make you gift online at annualcatholicappeal.org or Text ACA to 917-336-1255

Your participation joins you in faith to others in the Church doing good works during challenging times in innovative ways: connecting young people to the Church, feeding the hungry, giving shelter to the homeless, welcoming the stranger, caring for the elderly, sharing the Faith, educating the young and forming deacons and .

WHAT DOES THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION MEAN?

According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church...

490 To become the mother of the Savior, Mary "was enriched by God with gifts appropriate to such a role." 132 The angel Gabriel at the moment of the salutes her as "full of grace". 133 In fact, in order for Mary to be able to give the free assent of her faith to the announcement of her voca- tion, it was necessary that she be wholly borne by God's grace.

491 Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware that Mary, "full of grace" through God, 134 was redeemed from the moment of her conception. That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854:

The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin. 135

492 The "splendor of an entirely unique holiness" by which Mary is "enriched from the first instant of her conception" comes wholly from Christ: she is "redeemed, in a more exalted fashion, by reason of the merits of her Son". 136 The Father blessed Mary more than any other created person "in Christ with every spiritual in the heavenly places" and chose her "in Christ before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless before him in love". 137

493 The Fathers of the Eastern tradition call the Mother of God "the All-Holy" (Panagia), and celebrate her as "free from any stain of sin, as though fashioned by the Holy Spirit and formed as a new creature". 138 By the grace of God Mary remained free of

every personal sin her whole life long.

132 LG 56. 133 Lk 1:28. 134 Lk 1:28. 135 Pius IX, Ineffabilis Deus (1854): DS 2803. 136 LG 53, 56. 137 Cf. Eph 1:3-4. 138 LG 56 December 6, 2020 2nd Sunday of Advent Page 4 Reserving Mass Intentions for 2021

Please stop into the rectory Office during Office Hours to reserve Masses for 2021. Requested for Weekday and Sunday Masses—$15 The 4:30 pm Mass on Saturdays will be a collective intention Mass (more than one intention will be taken). It is a good and holy thing to remember our deceased loved ones at Mass.

Saturday, December 12 is the Feast of .

She appeared to Sait Juan Diego in 1531 and Please call Mr. Perez at the rectory left the magnificent image of herself on his cloak. office if you have not completed She is called the Empress your sacraments of initiation of the Americas.

(baptism, confirmation, eucharist). + We will be starting instructions soon. Let us honor her and pray 718-821-2323 that she continue to ask God to bless our lives.

STAYING SAFE FROM COVID-19 IN CHURCH  You must wear a mask while in Church at all times.

 Please remember to maintain 6 feet of distance from the person in front of you in the Communion . There are markers on the floor.

 Receiving Holy Communion in the hand is strongly recommended because there is less risk of inadvertent contact. If you receive on the tongue, you must wait to be the last person in the Communion Procession.

 When you receive in the hand, one hand should be placed over the other with palms open. Please do not move or close you hand until after the sacred Host has been placed there.

Our Church is sanitized regularly. Thanks for all your efforts to keep everyone healthy! Page 5 2nd Sunday of Advent December 6, 2020

Announcement Section MUSIC MINISTRY

Mass Cards There are two types of Mass Cards available: MUSIC MINISTRY AT SAINT PANCRAS Please call or visit the Rectory Office.

The first is an ANNOUNCED MASS. These are the Mass- Each week, Robert Buonaspi- es celebrated in Saint Pancras Church every day. The na, our Director of Music, intention of the Mass is announced. $15 is requested for offers some thoughts on the these Mass intentions. selections of music for Sun- The second is the PURGATORIAL SOCIETY MASS day’s Liturgy. (formerly called the Guild of Perpetual Prayer). These are for Masses offered once per month as a group in- “Comfort, comfort ye my people, speak ye peace, tention (The names are not announced individually). $10 thus saith our God; comfort those who sit in dark- is requested for these Mass intentions. People often use ness, mourning ‘neath their sorrow’s load.” these when visiting at a Wake. This Mass is generally celebrated on the 2nd Saturday of each month. You may have guessed these as the first four lines of a familiar song for this weekend — “Comfort, Comfort, O My People.” This wonderful of the Second Week of Advent is a beautiful All the Masses at Saint Pancras are being paraphrase of our first reading, 40, where a prophet is told that the forerunner John the Bap- LIVE-STREAMED and are available to watch tist, will soon come, baptize, and preach of the coming of our most powerful Savior. With a fun through our website and jocular irregular textual meter of 8.7.8.7.8.8, the text of this German hymn of Johann Olearius www.stpancras-queens.org (“GENEVAN”) calls for us, as followers of Christ, to prepare and repent for His earthly presence. If Please let friends, neighbors and family who might you attend the 4:30 PM Installation Mass this still feel uncomfortable coming to Mass in person weekend, you may very well hear a prelude on this very same German melody — set to voice and con- know that this service is available! tinuo by Johann Sebastian Bach, as the third movement of his 13th Canata. THANKS! On this note, we are fortunate to finally be cele- Please log onto our website at brating this weekend the official installation of Msgr. Steven Aguggia as pastor of St. Pan- www.stpancras-queens.org cras. Knowing what a difficult year this has been, I know that we as members of the community of For the latest news and information. St. Pancras are very grateful and thankful to Msgr. for his tremendous work in revitalizing our parish You can find Saint Pancras Church on community these past few months.

FaceBook and on Twitter too! As we yearn to be comforted by Christ and deem ourselves worthy of His impending reign, may we And don’t forget the QR codes in Church for the not forget the great sacrifice of our new pastor in bringing forward a very real presence of Christ Bulletin and . Scan them with your within our parish community. phone’s photo app. - Robert Buonaspina, Director of Music December 6, 2020 2nd Sunday of Advent Page 6

From the Pastor’s Desk… On this second Sunday of Advent, it occurs to me that life is quite different this year. In some ways, that may be a good thing. Advent is a difficult season to celebrate in the Church. We are all so focused already on Christmas that Advent kind of takes a back seat sometimes. The readings at Mass and the liturgy are meant to prepare us, to make us expect and wonder and to give us hope for the Christmas season to come. Yet, we are already celebrating Christmas in many ways and we forget about the preparation. Perhaps this year, we have more of an opportunity to step back from the hustle and bustle of Christmas and think about what Christmas really means to us. In other words, to enter into Advent., allowing ourselves to enter the spirit of preparation and ex- pectation. Our celebration of Christmas will be different this year perhaps, but maybe there is the hidden blessing of being able to concentrate more fully on the real meaning for the celebration … Jesus Christ lives among us! He is Emmanuel—God with us. Personally, I want to thank you all for your support and encouragement as I am installed as your pastor this weekend. While the celebration will be low-key, the anticipation and excitement are great for me personally. I want to start this liturgical year and this pastorate here at Saint Pancras with the assurance to you all that we will forge ahead as a parish community and be a shining light in the darkness because Jesus—Emmanuel– is with us! -In the Good Shepherd,

Msgr. Steven While we remain at 50% capacity in church due to the pandemic re- strictions and social distancing, every- one is invited to the Installation Mass on December 5th when MASSES AVAILABLE There are still Masses available for this year. DiMarzio will install Msgr. Aguggia as If you’re interested in reserving an intention for the Pastor. following Masses, please contact the rectory (718-821-2323) or stop by during Office Hours. This Mass, like all our Masses, will be

live-streamed. So, please spread the Saturday, December 12 at 8:30 am word. Those who cannot attend are Monday, December 21 at 8:30 am very welcome to join us on line. Simp- Tuesday, December 22 at 8:30 am ly, go to the parish website (stpancras- Saturday, December 26 at 8:30 am queens.org) and click on the live- stream button.