St. Boniface Martyr

Established 1898

Serving the people of God in the communities of Sea Cliff ~ Glenwood Landing ~ Glen Head ~ Glen Cove “We are a pilgrim people on a journey toward the Kingdom of God.”

Fr. Robert A. Romeo, Pastor

“I have come to set the earth on fire…” (Luke 12:49-53)

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time August 18, 2013

2 `táá fv{xwâÄx `|Ç|áàxÜËá fv{xwâÄx Daily Mass 8am (in the chapel) Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time: August 18

Sunday Masses Saturday: 5pm Vigil 5pm Vigil Fr. Nicholas Sunday: 8am, 10:15am Lectors: Blanche & Eric Tyrkko Holy Day Masses: 5pm Vigil; 8am & 7pm Ministers: Paul Bramfeld, Yvonne Brantuas Ann Dubin, Katherine Miller Special Intentions Mass 5pm first Saturday of month 8am Fr. Azubuike Lector: John Canning Ministers: Marie Agosta, Laura Andrysiak Ana Arellano, Ralph Casey

10:15am Fr. Nicholas Lector: Eileen Moran Ministers: Rosemary & John Murello Fran Roesch, Jane Serpico Joe Vulpis, Pat Warner Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 18 Jer 38:4-6, 8-10; Heb 12:1-4; Luke 12:49-53 The bread, wine, candles and sanctuary lamp were donated this week in memory of the Merrick and Furlong Families by Nancy, Patsy and Emily Furlong. 5pm Vigil Mass Intention:Michael J. Lincks, Jr. 8am Mass Intention: Parishioners 10:15am Mass Intention: Teresa Zangari RENEW & RESTORE THE HOUSE OF GOD Monday, August 19 (Noemie devenoge Cannizzaro) “Lord, I love the House in which You dwell” Ps. 76:8 Memorial of St. John Eudes Judges 2:11-19; Matthew 19:16-22 We have just completed the first year of our capital 8am Mass Celebrant: Fr. Azubuike campaign and have reached $1,150,217 in pledges!

Total amount paid to date $784,308.00. Tuesday, August 20 (Angelo D’Avino) Memorial of St. Bernard Payments are due as follows: Judges 6:11-24a; Matthew 19:23-30 Monthly payments are due on/before 8am Mass Celebrant: Fr. Azubuike August 31, 2013

Wednesday, August 21(Patrick Peyton) Quarterly Payment is due on/ before Judges 9:6-15; Matthew 20:1-16 September 30, 2013. 8am Mass Celebrant: Fr. Azubuike Annual Payments are due December 31st, 2013. Thursday, August 22 (Elizabeth and Victor Merkel) Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary Credit Cards Payments continue to be processed the last Judges 11:29-39a; Matthew 22:1-14 day of each month. If your credit card expiration date is 8am Mass Celebrant Fr. Nicholas soon we will be contacting you.

Friday, August 23 (Jessica Chebuske) It is not too late to participate in the Campaign!! There is Memorial of St. Rose of Lima still time to enroll! If you have any questions, kindly leave a Ruth 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22; Matthew 22:34-40 message at the Parish Office or email 8am Mass Celebrant: Fr. Nicholas [email protected]. We are extremely appreciative of Saturday, August 24 (Mary Ann Sweeney) your generosity and your continued efforts to satisfy your Feast of St. Bartholomew pledged amount Revelation 21:9b-14; John 1:45-51 8am Mass Celebrant: Fr. Nicholas Thank you! 5pm Celebrant: Fr. Azubuike (Deacon Tom Fox preaching) The Campaign Committee 5pm Vigil Mass Intention: Edward Nienstedt

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Seats are filling up quickly. Please call the parish office at 676-0676 for reservations.

Our contacts are Tom and Mary Jo Lilly [email protected]. Visit www.saintboniface.org for more information.

4 PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED STEWARDSHIP . . . A WAY OF LIFE

Please pray for those Thank you who have entered into eternal life, especially for your Financial Stewardship Rosemarie Beachboard. of $6798 last week. This week there will be a second Placement of names on the sick list collection for our parish must be requested by an immediate Maintenance and Repair Fund. family member through Fr. Bob. Thank you for your generosity! Names will be announced at weekend Masses for 3 weeks; then listed in the bulletin only. PRAYER GROUP Martha Anna, Ray Barone, Mondays 7:30pm in the Chapel. Mae Caffney, Caesar Cavese, John Cini, Ro D'Alessandro, All welcome. Come and bring a friend! Call John & William J. Dobrowski, Anthony Grasso, Sandra Haberle, Rosemary Murello at 676-2767 for more information. Jim Haley, Carol Hartney, Baby Jack, Cecelia Johnson, Janine D. Kelly, Carmen Listro, Carol MacGuffin Langstroth, ST. BONIFACE HOLY HOUR Peter McCarthy, Baby Max, James Molloy, Catherine Mortell, Mike Napoli, Baby Ouin O’Shea, Luz Payano, AND BENEDICTION Kathleen Quinn, Jeanne Riccardo, Maria Santoli, Wednesdays at 2pm in the Chapel. Nicholas Sica, Gloria Weis, Priscilla Waltz, Lillian Weber, Carolann White. PRAYER VIGIL FOR THE SICK Thursdays 7pm -7:30pm in the Chapel

ST. BONIFACE BIBLE STUDY The Bible Study will not meet during August. See you in September!

THE CHAPLET OF DIVINE MERCY Lieutenant Melissa Buffa & Lieutenant Travis Buffa Will not be meeting for the month of August. Petty Officer Keith Cano USCG We will resume on September 6. Lance CPL Matthew B. Christman Please join us! Flight Lieutenant Joseph Doyle Jake A. Hojnowski, Sailor E-3, US Navy Lance CPL Gregory Knox BINGO! Fridays 7:15pm at the Knights of Captain Brett Korade, USN Columbus Hall in Glen Cove. Lieutenant Brian McMenamin All proceeds go to charity, including our Lieutenant Ian McMenamin St. Boniface Outreach Program. Private First Class Joshua McMillan Ensign Michael R. Ragusa, USN Lieutenant Drew Whitting, USN MIRACULOUS MEDAL NOVENA Captain Christina Merrick-Wright Saturdays after 8am Mass in the Chapel Captain Bradley Wright, US Army. with the veneration of the relic of St. Catherine Labore.

5% DONATION “Your plenty at the present time should LAY CARMELITES OF BLESSED TITUS BRANDSMA supply their needs so that their surplus may Third Saturdays 9am in the Parish Center in turn one day supply your need.” (II Cor 8:14) Call Flora at 656-9375 or Pat at 887-7265 for details.

If you have any “plenty” left over, please place it in an envelope marked “For Special Assistance” and ROSARY Fr. Bob will make sure it is given to those “to supply Mondays-Saturdays after 8am Mass in the Chapel. their need." PLEASE PRAY about this and see what Jesus is calling you to do. Check Bishop Murphy’s blog at www.licatholic.org

5 The Gospel of the Lord! rooftops. As the priest announces that this is from Matthew or Mark, from Luke or John, we From the beginning, reading trace the sign of the cross on our foreheads (may from one of the four gospels has we understand this good news!), on our lips (may been a high point of our Sunday we always speak and spread this good news!), assembling to give thanks and and over our hearts (may we love and always praise. For good reason, too. live this good news!) Then we listen. We stand Christ comes to us in word as together and listen. We stand and listen like a well as in deed, in the scriptures servant being given orders, like an honored as well as in the sharing of his guest being whose deeds are recounted, like a body and blood. And while we know that God convicted criminal before the judge’s bench, like speaks to us in all of holy scripture, at Mass we the beloved being met in haste by the lover. And are most eager to hear the gospel, the good news when it is spoken, when the last word for this day of the very words and deeds of Jesus. (That is has sunk deep within, the priest looks to us and what the Old English word “gospel” means after says, “The gospel of the Lord!” to which we cry, all, “good news,” “God’s news”). So when it is “Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ!” What else time, we jump to our feet. We acclaim the coming could we possibly say? of the gospel with that most ancient and holy of Copyright © 2001 Archdiocese of Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications. words: Alleluia! (Unless it is Lent, our season of All rights reserved. Used with permission. sorrow when we fast from our glorious word just like Israel in exile hung up its harps.) Fast to out feet, singing loud praise, we watch as the priest (or the deacon) takes up the Book of the Gospels. St. Boniface Outreach Accompanied by servers with candles, perhaps with fragrant clouds of incense from another The St. Boniface Outreach server’s bowl, the Book of the Gospels makes it Program thanks you for your way through our assembly from altar to ambo. It donations. Currently the sat on the altar from the start of Mass as a sign food program is in need of that Christ is present in the gospel. Now it is taken “up to the heights” to be proclaimed from pasta, soups, sauce, peanut the ambo, just as Jesus preached the sermon on butter and jelly. Again, the mount, or the apostles, drunk with the Holy thank you for your generous Spirit, shouted joy from Jerusalem’s Pentecost support in helping us help the needy.

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lice! It was part of perfumes and soap and kept lamps 6 lit. Anointing someone with oil marked them for leadership in the faith community; the word messiah—translated into Greek as christos—comes from the Hebrew word for “anointing.” Today you  Sunday, August 18, 2013 can find oil in the form of chrism—oil mixed with “Be who God meant you to be and you will set the scents—in the “sacraments of initiation,” Baptism, world on fire,” said Saint Catherine of Sienna in her Confirmation, and Holy Orders (Ordination), and in wisdom. But just who is it that God wants you to be? the dedication of altars and church buildings. Food, The process of seeking answers to that question is healing, light, and blessing: Much has come from the humble olive! what the church calls the “process of discernment.” Each of us must take time out at various points in our Thursday, August 22 lives to determine just where we are being called and Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary what will light a fire within us and set the world For many it may be a long time since you crowned a ablaze. As you determine your fiery course, consider statue of Mary with a wreath of flowers or called her this exhortation from Pope Francis: “We Christians sovereign over your heart, much less Queen of were not chosen by the Lord for little things; push Heaven. Pope Pius XII inaugurated this feast in 1954 onwards toward the highest principles. Stake your and it can sound rather antique these days. If you’re lives on noble ideals.” struggling to understand why heaven needs a queen,

 Monday, August 19 consider the Second Vatican Council’s description of Memorial of St. John Eudes Mary as the “exemplary realization” of the church. You often find depictions of Saint John Eudes with She demonstrates the best of what you’re capable: the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the whole-souled responsiveness to God. When you arrive at that, it’s your day to wear the crown. Immaculate Heart of Mary. His devotion and dedication to these hearts stem from one of the central Friday, August 23 themes of his writings: “Jesus as the source of Memorial of St. Rose of Lima holiness and Mary as the model of the Christian life.” When faced with a difficult task, you might hope for Pope Benedict XVI said that Saint John Eudes an easy answer. As an adult you know that new “wanted to recall people, men and women . . . to the challenges can also become growing experiences. It is heart by showing them the priestly Heart of Christ and in those times where you see transformation take the motherly Heart of Mary.” Saint John Eudes’ heart place in your heart and mind. The one thing you come led him to focus on the formation of diocesan clergy. to know as a Christian is that God wants your love Where is your heart—and those of Jesus and Mary— unconditionally at each moment of every day. You leading you this day? can express it easily in times of joy. You realize it can

Tuesday, August 20 be difficult when issues such as child-care concerns Memorial of St. Bernard arise or bills cannot be paid on time. Tonight when you close your eyes, whisper to God, “I love you.” None of us is immune from the spirit of the age we live in, and sometimes that spirit is not particularly Saturday, August 24 holy. The era of the Crusades in 11th-century Europe Feast of St. Bartholomew was such a time, and even a saint as great as Bernard The little we know of Bartholomew (a.k.a. Nathaniel) of Clairvaux was caught up in it. After being includes a fascinating story in which Jesus (whom persuaded to whip up support for the Second Crusade, he’d never met) pays him the compliment of being a Bernard came to regret his involvement in this ill- man “without deceit.” Nathaniel was at a loss that conceived venture. Have you ever made a decision Jesus not only knew him and his character but had you later regretted? We’ve all been there at one time already somehow seen him “under the fig tree”—an or another, which is one reason saints are so expression that may be a euphemism for being a endearing: They were real people who became saints seeker of peace, a seeker of the kingdom of God. If not because they were perfect but because they dealt you feel alone facing what today has in store, pray with their shortcomings in a holy way. confidently with the psalmist, “Lord, you probe me

Wednesday, August 21 and you know me. . . . with all my ways you are In biblical times olives were a very important familiar,” and, full of trust, encounter again the Lord commodity. Their oil was applied to skin as a who knows you. medication—and as a good way to get rid of head Reprinted with permission from Prepare the Word (©2013)

7 Pastoral Team Pastor: Fr. Robert A. Romeo E-mail: [email protected]

In Residence: Fr. Azubuike Deacon Tom Fox: [email protected] Music: Jeffrey Schneider E-mail: [email protected] The High School youth group will be on break All Saints Regional Catholic School (ASR) until September 8th, when we with gather Principal: The Very Reverend Dom Elias Carr, Can. Reg. Joanne Fitzgerald, Dean for our Kickoff Teen Mass and 12 Pearsall Avenue, Glen Cove, NY 11542 Dinner at 6pm in the chapel (celebrated by Fr. (516) 676-0762. Wesite: www.asrcatholic.org Bob) to begin our 2013-2014 year! Religious Education: Karen Croce Phone: (516) 671-0418; E-mail: [email protected] For an updated schedule of youth group events please join Youth Ministry: Chris Mandato our Facebook page ‘St. Boniface Martyr Youth Group or Email: [email protected] email the youth minister, Chris, at [email protected]. Parish Outreach: Jerry Moran & Kevin O’Shea Parish Center. Wednesdays & Saturdays. 10 am-1pm Phone: (516) 676-0676. Email:[email protected] Business & Finance: Eileen Krieb St. Vincent de Paul Society E-mail: [email protected] Administration: Joan Schiller In today’s Gospel Jesus said to his E-mail: [email protected] disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it Bulletin Editor: Julie Byrne. E-mail: [email protected] Deadline: Mondays at noon. were already blazing! There is a baptism with which I must be Webmaster: Robert Lynch baptized, and how great is my Website: www.saintboniface.org anguish until it be accomplished!” Maintenance: Anacleto Rivera: 516-676-0676 Your gift to the Society to assist Parish Center: 145 Glen Avenue, Sea Cliff, NY 11579 those suffering in poverty will help set the earth on fire (516) 676-0676 / Fax: (516) 674-6742 with the of God’s love. E-mail: [email protected] / www.saintboniface.org Office Hours: 9am-12:30pm & 1:30pm-4:30pm, Monday-Friday Thanks to all of you for your support! Parish Registration: We welcome all new members of our parish Furniture and financial donations are always welcome. family. We ask all parishioners to welcome and invite new neighbors You are too! and their families to become a part of St. Boniface Martyr Parish. Come join the St. Vincent de Paul Society Parish registration (census) forms available by the main doors of the and become a communal part of your parish. church and in the parish office for new members. Please return Call 822-3132. completed forms to the parish office. Baptism: Parents wishing to present a child for Baptism should be registered members of St. Boniface Martyr Parish. Parents are required to have a Baptism Preparation Interview and attend a Baptism class. Baptisms are celebrated on the last Sunday of the FKG j|ÇÇxÜá month. Godparents must be fully initiated members of the Catholic Church (having received the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist), and provide a sponsor certificate. Please call August 10: $25 Robert Gelfand, Glen Head 676-0676 to pre-arrange. August 11: $25 Francine Furtado, Port Washington Marriage: Couples wishing to be married should call the parish August 12: $25 Annemarie Zabielski, Glen Head office before any other arrangements are made. A minimum of six August 13: $25 Aldo & Mirian Cavese, Glen Cove months is needed for marriage preparations. August 14: $25 Elizabeth Heron, Glen Cove Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA): An ongoing process of formation for those who ever wonder if they should become August 15: $25 Fran Chebuske, Sea Cliff “Catholic”. If interested, call Fr. Bob at 676-0676. August 16: $25 Daniel & Laura Johnson, Sea Cliff Reconciliation (Confession): Saturdays 4pm-4:45pm in church. Tickets are in the church vestibule & parish center.

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