Church of St. Aidan Blood Drive Sunday, September 22, 2019 8:00Am-2:00Pm Msg. Kirwin Hall 525 Willis Avenue, Williston Park
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CHURCH OF SAINT AIDAN WILLISTON PARK Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion? September 8, 2019 505 Willis Ave. Williston Park We invite New York 11596-1727 everyone to 516-746-6585 516-746-6055 (Fax) walk with Rectory Office Hours Monday to Friday Jesus 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Saturday & Sunday and 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM www.staidanparish.org experience [email protected] His Pastor Rev. Adrian McHugh healing Associate Pastors power and Rev. Ken Grooms Rev. Solomon Odinukwe Rev. Robinson Sierra love In Residence Rev. Edward Sheridan Baptism the 4th Sunday of each month. Baptisms are held on the 1st Deacons Anyone who is homebound may Rev. Salvatore B. Villani Sunday and 3rd Sunday at 1:30 PM. receive Holy Communion at home Rev. Rudy Martin ext. 9412 Contact the Rectory office ext. 9101 on a regular basis. Call the rectory - Tuesday-Friday between the hours ext. 9101. St. Aidan School of 10:00 AM-3:00 PM. ext. 9202, 9203 Grades Nursery-2 ext. 9302, 9303 Grades 3-8 Confession / Reconciliation Principal Baptism Class For New Parents Reconciliation is celebrated every Mrs. Julie O’Connell The required Baptism class for new Saturday from 12:30-1:30 PM and Assistant Principal parents is held the second Sunday 4:00-5:00 PM in the church or by Ms. Barbara Graham of each month beginning with the appointment with a priest. 12:00 Mass parents are asked to Faith Formation ext. 9404, 9405 gather at St. Joseph’s statue to the Adoration Director ext. 9406 right of the main altar. First and third Fridays of the month Mrs. Elaine Smith, 1:00-3:00 PM in the church. Marriage Youth Ministry Arrangements are to be made at Coordinator ext. 9403 Pastoral Council Members Mr. Stephen Loewenthal the Rectory office at least 9 months Cathy Frischmann, Bonnie Parente, in advance. Pre-Cana and FOCCUS Mary Ellen Testa, Suellen Peterson, Music Director registrations must be arranged Jackie McHugh, Robert Rynkar, Mr. Drago Bubalo ext. 9130 through the parish. Joseph Arralde, Dominic Macedo [email protected] Social Ministry, Director Anointing & Communion PARISH E-MAILS Ms. Rosemarie Cavallaro The anointing of the sick takes Sign up to receive e-mails ext. 9410, 9408 place after the 12:00 PM Mass on www.staidanparish.org. TWENTY-THIRD WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME MASS TIMES AND INTENTIONS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2019 ST. PETER CLAVER, PRIEST Fr. Ed 6:30 AM Donald T. Kiley, Sr. (1st Anniversary Rem.) Fr. Solomon 9:00 AM Mary Anne Elliott (1st Anniversary Rem.) Fr. Robinson 12:30 PM Charles & Helen Melvin (Birthday Rem.) Fr. Robinson 5:30 PM Edward Reiher TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2019 WEEKDAY Fr. Ken 6:30 AM Manny Abad (Birthday Rem.) Fr. Ken 9:00 AM Emma & Joseph Mohrmann (Wedding Anniversary) Fr. Solomon 12:30 PM Mary Anne Elliott (1st Anniversary Rem.) Fr. Solomon 5:30 PM Christian J. & Helen M. Frischmann and Elizabeth Frischmann Gillen WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2019 WEEKDAY Fr. Ed 6:30 AM Detective Chris Dowdell Fr. Solomon 9:00 AM Christopher Peer (2nd Anniversary Rem.) Fr. Adrian 12:30 PM Donna Wilson (18th Anniversary Rem.) Fr. Adrian 5:30 PM 9/11 Memorial Mass Donald T. Kiley, Sr. (1st Anniversary Rem.) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 THE MOST HOLY NAME OF MARY Fr. Adrian 6:30 AM Agnes Kimkowski Fr. Adrian 9:00 AM John Kenny & Paul Kelly Fr. Ken 12:30 PM Mary Anne Elliott (1st Anniversary) Fr. Ken 5:30 PM Armand Villa (4th Anniversary Rem.) FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM Fr. Ken 6:30 AM Dcd. Mbrs. of the Caputo & Gerrain Families Fr. Adrian 9:00 AM Peter Kelly Fr. Robinson 12:30 PM In Thanksgiving to St. Anthony Fr. Robinson 5:30 PM Andrew Boyle (Birthday Rem.) SATURDAY, SEMTEMBER 14, 2019 THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS Fr. Solomon 9:00 AM Elsa Montalbano (2nd Anniversary Rem.) Joseph Montalbano (Birthday Rem.) Fr. Ken 5:00 PM Donald T. Kiley, Sr. (1st Anniversary Rem.) Patrick McCarthy (1st Anniversary Rem.) Harry Entenmann (4th Anniversary Rem.) James Desmond (Birthday Rem.) Thomas Stalters Fr. Adrian 7:30 PM Parishioners of St. Aidan SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Fr. Adrian 7:30 AM Kenneth Fleck (1st Anniversary Rem.) Fr. Ken 9:00 AM Antonio Machado Fr. Solomon 10:30 AM Milohnic, Mossa & Rizzi Family Fr. Solomon 12:00 PM Jennie DelVecchio (Birthday Rem.) Gregg Fiore Anne Marie Tartaglia Carmela Felden Louis Monaco Fr. Ken 5:00 PM Tom Clark Counting the cost What’s Pastor Thinking Luciano Pavarotti once commented anyone comes to me without hating his father and on a lesson he learned from his mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, father. ‘When I was a boy, my father, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.’ who was a baker, introduced me to the wonders of Hate our families? Hate even our own song. He urged me to work very hard to develop selves? What is Jesus talking about here? my voice. A professional tenor in my home town Well, Jesus is not talking about being filled with took me on as a student. I also enrolled in a animosity and spite for our families. teacher’s college. As graduation was nearing, I That’s not what the word ‘hate’ meant in Jesus’ asked my father, ‘Shall I be a teacher or a singer?’ day. Back then it meant making clear choices ‘Luciano,’ my father replied, ‘if you try to sit on about what’s really important. And, Jesus is saying, two chairs, you will fall between them. For life, you as much as we might love our families and our own must choose. You can only sit in one chair.’ lives, what’s really important is to long for and live ‘I chose one,’ Pavarotti continues. ‘It took several for the full coming of the kingdom of God. years of study and frustration before I made my That’s what Jesus means when he calls upon his first professional appearance. It took another followers to ‘hate’ family and self, to love God and several years to reach the Metropolitan long for God most of all! And that’s a message that Opera. And now, I think, whether it’s laying bricks, is relevant in any day and age. As Pavarotti said, writing a book, whatever we choose, we should we’ve got to ‘choose one chair’. We can’t waffle give ourselves completely to it. Commitment, when it comes to what really matters in life, can’t that’s the key. Choose one chair.’ remain indecisive and still hope to live a significant Isn’t that what Jesus is saying in the words he and meaningful life. speaks today? ‘Which of you wishing to construct a Jesus is speaking to us, when he challenged the tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost people, ‘Choose God!’ Remain faithful to the one to see if there is enough for its completion?’ true God! The choice is real, isn’t it. It’s not easy, He then goes on to say something puzzling: ‘If but it’s good! WE PRAY FOR THE STEWARDSHIP DECEASED OF OUR 09/02/18- $25,943 09/01/19- $23,732 (-8.52%) PARISH FRIENDS OF ST. AIDAN COLLECTION Joseph Bundy 09-02-18- $4,216 09/02/19- $4,665 (+10.64%) Alfreda Chotkowski Therese F. Willig CATHOLIC MINISTRIES APPEAL Rosalie Lupfer Goal $169,600 Pledges $116,286 Donors 456 All who died for our country SPECIAL COLLECTIONS This weekend the second collection is for WE PRAY FOR THE The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. SICK OF OUR PARISH The second collection on the weekend of 21st / 22nd is for St. Pius X Enriched living facility. James Kovastch Judy Eberson-Kostovik BREAD & WINE MEMORIAL Joan McDermott In Loving Memory of MICHAEL CAHILL Chris Lynch Requested by The Cahill Family Philip Capobianco John Baglione Imelda & Mariano SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY Buenventura Raymond Schmitt Anne Arcario Saturday, September 14, 2019 Sandra Lisanti 1:30 PM Nuptial Mass Alyssa Fagan LAUREN GAGLIO & Dennis Gilhooly CHRISTOPHER CRESCIONE JoAnn Eisel Robert Eisel Jill Ohl Mary Vladich BANNS OF MARRIAGE Douglas Kuhn Richard Arcario FIRST WEEK Francesca Caccavale Meagan Kozhimala, Dorothy Erlich Guardian Angels, Brooklyn, NY Nancy Krauter Michele Reilly & Alex Neifert, Santa Rosa, CA Virginia Fallon Mary Carmen Gianello Irene Zerman, Cathedral of Verona Mary Ann Katkowsky & Andrew Starr, St. Aidan Sue Fleming SECOND WEEK Amanda Feniello, St. Aidan REMEMBERING OUR SERVICE MEN & & Evan Riccardi, WOMEN Our Lady of Hope, Westbury, NY Protect our service men and THIRD WEEK women, Lord Jesus, as we Lauren Gaglio, St. Aidan continue to pray for world Christopher Crescione, peace. St. Cyril & Methodius 9/11 Memorial Mass Church of St. Aidan Wednesday 5:30 PM let us remember those of our parish who perished that day Thomas Ashton Robert Baierwalter Michael J. Cahill Kevin Donnelly Keith Fairben Robert Foti Kevin James Hannaford Charles Heeran Thomas Holohan Michael Patrick Iken Robert Jordan Thomas Kuveikis Peter Langone Thomas Langone Alan Lederman Thomas Mahon John Maloney Joseph Maloney Patrick McGuire Ann McGovern Chuck Mendez Mary Murphy-Boffa Peter J. Owens, Jr. Lawrence Virigilio Donna Wilson John Wright LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR ROSARY ALTAR SOCIETY Today’s 9am Mass is in memory of deceased Rosarian Anne Murphy. the Rosarian will process into Church and sit as a group in front to celebrate the Mass.