TWENTY -FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME PASTORALSTORAL STAFF SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 Father Gerald E. Murray, J.C.D., Pastor [email protected] Father T. Chacko, Parochial Vicar [email protected] Father Roger J. Landry, In Residence [email protected] Mrs. Elizabeth Rivera, Parish Secretary and Religious Education Director [email protected] Chris Agalias, Custodian

FINANCE COUNCIL Joanne Kane, Endowment Trustee; William C. Hilliard, Endowment Trustee; Catherine Flax-Kosecki , Endowment Trustee; Arsenio B. Vivera, M.D., Lay Trustee; Shirley Weber ; Maria Salles Zehler, Mark Zadrozny, Endowment Trustee , Thomas McMackin, Endowment Trustee

SCHEDULE OF MASSES Sundays 5:30 PM Saturday (anticipated); 8:00 AM, 11 AM (High Mass) 8:30 PM

Weekdays 8:00 AM (Monday through Friday) 12:10 PM (Monday through Saturday) Messe en français, mardi 13h10 (septembre – juin)

Holy Days of Obligation 8:00 AM, 12:10 PM, 5:30 PM

Church Novenas and Devotions - Immediately after the 12:10 PM Mass Monday: Miraculous Medal Novena Tuesday: Recitation of the Holy Rosary for peace in the world Wednesday: Mother of Perpetual Help Novena Thursday: Recitation of the Holy Rosary the Friday: Exposition of The Most Blessed Sacrament from of 12:35 to 2:00 PM Sacred Heart Novena (during Lent: Stations of the Cross replace Exposition, Novena and Benediction) CONFESSIONSCONFESSION S - SACRAMENT OF PENANCE Saturday from 11:55-12:05 PM and from 5:00 PM to 5:25 PM Holy Sunday from 10:30 AM to 10:55 AM and 8:15-8:25 p.m. Monday through Friday from 11:55-12:05 PM At other times please stop by the rectory

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Baptisms are administered on Sundays at 12:15 PM. An instruction class is required Family for the parents and godparents. Please contact Fr. Murray for an appointment.

SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE 315 East 47th Street Please contact Fr. Murray at least six months in advance of your proposed date of marriage. Pre-Cana instruction is required for the engaged couple. New York, NY 10017 2313 - VISITATION OF THE SICK - COMMUNION CALLS Serving the Turtle Bay and Please contact Fr. Murray for visitation of the sick at home or in the hospital.

United Nations Communities RELIGIOUS EDUCATION - CCD 3401 For the religious education of children in grades first through seven (including preparation Tel.: (212) 753 - for First Confession, First Holy Communion and Confirmation) please contact Fax.: (212) 753 -3428 Mrs. Elizabeth Rivera at the Parish Office. Adults who would like to join the are asked to contact Fr. Joseph Chacko. www.churchholyfamily.org Baptized Catholics who need to receive First Confession, First Communion and/or Confirmation are asked to contact Fr. Joseph Chacko.

NEW PARISHIONERS Welcome to Holy Family! Please register in the Parish Office or on-line. Church of the Holy Family - The United Nations Parish ONLINE GIVING TO THE PARISH Online Giving is available with WeShare. You can set up a recurring weekly or monthly @HolyFamilyNYC transaction using your checking, savings, or credit card account. To enroll visit churchholyfamily.churchgiving.com . !C HURCH OF THE H OLY F A M I L Y T H E U NITED N ATIONS P A R I S H M ASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK OF T H S EPTEMBER 1 5 , 2 0 1 9 Sunday, September 15th – Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time 5:30 p.m. Dominga and Luis Go + (Saturday) TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 8:00 a.m. Luis Jose + The Gospel is from St. Luke 15:1-32. The lesson is clearly 11:00 a.m. Mary and Bernie Naughton + one of hope and confidence in the infinite mercy of God 8:30 p.m. Pacita E. Velasco + with us. We have all gone astray like the lost sheep at Monday, September 16 th – Cornelius, , and sometime. , Bishop and Martyr However God’s loves cannot be grasp or understood. The 8:00 a.m. John Leonard + Old Testament is full of examples of God’s unfailing 12:10 p.m. Bonkoungou Thomas + mercy for man. The New Testament begins with an act of th Tuesday, September 17 – Robert Bellamine, Bishop divine mercy, the Incarnation. The coming of the Son of and God in our human nature, His teaching, His sufferings and 8:00 a.m. Betty Benedetto + death, His resurrection were all for us, so we could rise 12:10 p.m. Cristina Valdes + from the dead and share the joys of heaven, to which we Wednesday, September 18 th – Weekday have no claim but for the goodness and generosity of God. 8:00 a.m. Frank Benedetto + God does not cast out us sinners forever who are unworthy 12:10 p.m. Nicasio Bustamante + of His gifts. Instead, He has left us lessons of th Thursday, September 19 –Saint Januarius, Bishop & Martyr encouragement and set up in the Church ways and means 8:00 a.m. Celebrant’s Intention to carry on His work of mercy for weak, mortal men. 12:10 p.m. Zach Bunsa + Christ said he came to save the lost sheep of the house of Friday, September 20 th – Saints Andrew Kim Tae-gõn, Priest Israel and said it was the sick that needed a doctor, not and Paul Chõng Ha-sang, Companions, Martyrs those who were well. 8:00 a.m. Linda L. Tieng (L) With the infinite mercy of God no sinner need ever 12:10 p.m. Celebrant’s Intention despair. Sinners are lost only because they will not trust, Saturday, September 21 st – Saint Matthew, Apostle ask for pardon and believe in God's mercy. 12:10 p.m. Holy Souls 5:30 p.m. Rich Sommese + Everyday our merciful Father calls His erring children to return to the Father's household. Today, one of those calls READINGS FOR THE WEEK OF is in the very words of the parables you have heard. Turn September 15 th , 2019 (Year C, Cycle I). June be found: to God today with a truly contrite heart. God will do the http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/inspiration.asp rest. CONFESSION SCHEDULE Excerpted from The Sunday Readings Cycle C , Fr. Kevin Saturdays from 11:55–12:05 p.m. and 5:00–5:25 p.m. O' Sullivan, O.F.M. Sundays from 10:30–10:55 a.m. and 8:10- 8:25 p.m. !Excerpted from !"#$%&'("")'$)*+,&*- Monday through Friday from 11:55–12:05 p.m. “The primary sacrament of the New Evangelization is the LECTORS, USHERS NEEDED: If you are interested in Sacrament of Penance.” volunteering your time and talents, please contact the His Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York rectory. ! HOLY DAYS OF OBLIGATION LEGION OF MARY : For more information on the Christmas - December 25th: 12 midnight, 8 am, 11 am * Legion of Mary: please contact Rose Gaddi: 267-546- Mary, Mother of God - January 1st: 5:30 pm (anticipated), 8 am, 8204. Meetings are on Thursdays from 1:00 PM- 2:00 PM. ! 11 am * (*If Christmas and January 1st fall on a Sunday, there is SPANISH MARIAN PRAYER GROUP. Tuesdays 6:00 also an 8:30 PM Mass.) Ascension Thursday, - August 15 th, – 8:00 PM in the rectory. For more information: Laura All Saints - November 1 st , - December 8 th , Hagan: 516-492-7158. 5:30 p.m. (anticipated), 8 a.m., 12:10 p.m., 5:30 p.m* MINISTRY TO SENIOR PARISHIONERS!!If you are (*Please note: if January 1st, August 15th or November 1st fall on interested in helping to organize events, please contact Fr. a Saturday or a Monday, they are not Holy Days of Obligation, as Joseph Chacko .! decreed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.)

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!C HURCH OF THE H OLY F A M I L Y T H E U NITED N ATIONS P A R I S H IN YOUR PRAYERS please remember: Sherry catechist and the required materials. Classes will begin Brathwaite, Melody Colligan, Carlos Cuerta, Rachel October 2, 2019 at 5:30 PM and are held on Wednesdays. Dawson, Paul Estipona and Family, Dorothy Gerber, Gregory Henry, Ronald Henry, Sr., Ken Majuk, Bea ADULT RELIGIOUS EDUCATION (RCIA). Are you Maviglia, Joanne Perry, Frank Sajeski, Sebastian Sancho, interested in becoming Catholic and receiving the Margie Skeels, Mateo Tobia, Alfredo Thomas, Virginia Sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and the Holy Vassallo, Nivene Young and Cathy Vukovich, who are ill Eucharist? Classes meet on Saturdays at 10:00 AM in or disabled. the rectory office, starting on September 28. The course Dear Parishioners, is free. If you or a friend are interested, please drop in; there is no commitment. If you have questions, please I am very happy to be back after my vacation, which took contact Fr. Joe Chacko at [email protected], or at me to Europe. I visited Albania and then stopped in Rome (212) 753-3401E xt 15. for a few days. I prayed for all of you at St. Peter’s Basilica. I then performed a wedding in St. Jean de Luz, 1. Bishop Reilly High School France for a lovely young couple. I also spent a day at Were you or someone you know in the last graduating Lourdes, where I remembered you at Our Lady’s grotto. class [1974] of Bishop Reilly High School in Fresh Meadows, NY? The BRHS Class of 1974 will All parishioners and friends are invited to join us on th Monday September 16th at 6 PM for the annual Prayer celebrate its 45 Anniversary of graduation on Service of the Holy See Mission to the United Nations for Saturday, November 9, 2019. the opening of the General Assembly. Bishop Paul To be added to the contact list and receive further Hinder, Apostolic Vicar for Southern Arabia, will deliver information, please send an email a brief mediation. A reception in Robbins Hall will to [email protected] . follow immediately after the Prayer Service. All are 2. St. Luke School, Whitestone, NY invited. Were you or someone you know in the graduating class The week we are beginning an Increased Giving of 1970 of St. Luke School, Whitestone, NY? The Campaign here at Holy Family. I will speak at all the Class of 1970 will celebrate its 50 th Anniversary of Masses about this campaign. Our parishioners are being graduation in 2020. To be added to the contact list and asked to increase their weekly Sunday donation in order receive further information, please send an email to help us meet the costs of running our parish. to [email protected] .

Update on the elevator project: We are now receiving 3. Catherine McAuley High School, Brooklyn, NY bids from general contractors for the elevator to be Did you or someone you know attend Catherine installed in the church vestibule. We expect the work to McAuley High School in Brooklyn, NY? McAuley’s begin this Fall. Annual Reunion for All Graduates will take place on Saturday, April 25, 2020 at Russo’s On the Bay in God bless you! Howard Beach, Queens. To be added to the contact list Fr. Gerald E. Murray, Pastor and receive further information, please send an email HOLY FATHER’S PRAYER INTENTION: to [email protected] . September 2019: The Protection of the Oceans ROSARY. We pray the rosary in the church every That politicians, scientists and economists work together Tuesday and Thursday after the 12:10 PM Mass. to protect the world's seas and oceans. Pamphlets with prayers for the rosary are available in the back of the church. … Love is patient. Love is kind. Let me empty myself of all selfishness to enable God to fill me with His love. BENEDICTION. On Fridays, after the 12:10 PM Mass, (unpub.) --- Saint Teresa of Calcutta Exposition of The Most Blessed Sacrament is RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NEWS. We would like to celebrated, concluding with Benediction at 2:00 PM. remind all families that registration for our Religious God throws no one away; God loves everyone, looks Education Program – CCD is now open. You can get an for everyone: one by one! He doesn’t know what application from the rectory office and submit it to us with a copy of the child’s Baptismal certificate along with the “throwing people away” means, because he is fee. The sooner you register your child, the more time you entirely love, entirely mercy. (General Audience St. will give us to properly prepare your child’s class, Peter’s Square, May 4, 2016) Pope Francis

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