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The Piarist Fathers Pastor Rev. David Powers Sch.P. Parochial Vicars Rev. Nelson Henao Sch.P. Rev. Richard Wyzykiewicz Sch.P. Parish Staff Parish Secretary Mrs. Rosemarie Ortiz Business Manager Anne Kathy Rice Facilities Manager Alina Hernandez Music Director saint Mr. Daniel Ambe Musicians Mr. Jim Donaldson Helena Mr. Alex Henriquez parish June 2018 Bronx, NY Mass Schedule (Horario de Misas) St. Helena’s School (718) 892-3234 http://www.sthelenaelementary.org Early Childhood (3Yr Olds & 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 http://www.scanlanhs.edu/ Arrangements must be Principal: Mr. Peter Doran made at the Rectory for Baptismal 915 Hutchinson River Parkway Class. Bring a copy of the child’s Birth Bronx, New York 10465 Certificate and Godparent documents. St. Helena Rectory: Arrangements for 1315 Olmstead Avenue weddings should be made as soon as possible at the Rectory. Bronx, N.Y. 10462 Phone: (718) 892-3232 All Catholics who live within the parish boundaries Fax: (718) 892-7713 should fill out a registration card at the Rectory. www.churchofsthelena.com Email: [email protected] Alumni: [email protected] ST. L BRONX, St. Romuald - June 19 SOLEMN PROFESSION St. Romuald was born at Ravenna about the year 956. In spite of Br. Ricardo Rivera, Sch.P. will profess his an infinite desire for virtue and sanctity, his early life was wasted in the service of the world and its pleasures. Then one day, Solemn Religious Vows here at St. Helena on obliged by his father, Sergius, to be present at a duel fought by Saturday, June 23 at 10AM in the Church. The him, he beheld him slay his adversary. The crime made such an Very Rev. Pedro Aguado, Sch.P., the Piarist impression upon him that he determined to expiate it for forty days, as though it were entirely his own. For this purpose, he Fathers Superior General will receive his vows. retired to the Benedictine monastery of St. Apollinare, near A reception for Br. Ricardo David of the Face Ravenna, where he became Abbot. After founding several monasteries, he laid the foundations of the austere Order of of Jesus and St. Joachim , Sch.P. will follow Camaldoli in Tuscany. Like all the saints, he fought a lifelong the ceremony in the gym. battle against the assaults of devils and men. At the beginning of his spiritual life, he was strongly assailed by numerous temptations, which he conquered by vigilance and prayer. More than one attempt was made on his life, but Divine Providence Father’s Day - June 17 enabled him to escape from the danger. Like many servants of The nation’s first Father’s Day was God, he also became the victim of calumny, which he bore in celebrated on June 19, 1910, in the state patience and silence. In his old age, he increased his austerities of Washington. However, it was not until instead of diminishing them. After a long life of merit, he died in 1972, which was 58 years after President the monastery of Castro, which he founded in the Marquisate of Ancona. His death occurred on June 19, about the year 1027. Woodrow Wilson made Mother’s Day official, that the day honoring fathers became a nationwide holiday in the United The Patron Saint of Youth - June 21 States. St. Aloysius Gonzaga was born Luigi Gonzaga on March 9, 1568 in On July 5, 1908, a West Virginia church Castiglione delle Stiviere, Northern Italy, between Brescia and sponsored the nation’s first event explicitly Mantova. His father was a famous condottiere, a mercenary in honor of fathers, a Sunday sermon in soldier. Saint Aloysius received military training, but his father also memory of the 362 men who had died in provided him with an excellent classical education, sending him the previous December’s explosions at the and his brother Ridolfo to Florence to study while serving at the court of Francesco I de Medici. In Florence, Saint Aloysius found Fairmont Coal Company mines in his life turned upside down when he became ill with a kidney Monongah, but it was a one-time commemoration and not an disease, and, during his recovery, he devoted himself to prayer annual holiday. The next year, a Spokane, Washington, woman and the study of the lives of the saints. At the age of 12, he named Sonora Smart Dodd, one of six children raised by a returned to his father's castle, where he met the great saint and widower, tried to establish an official equivalent to Mother’s Day cardinal Charles Borromeo. Aloysius had not yet received his First for male parents. She went to local churches, the YMCA, Communion, so the cardinal administered it to him. Shortly shopkeepers and government officials to drum up support for her thereafter, Saint Aloysius conceived of the idea of joining the idea, and she was successful because Washington State Jesuits and becoming a missionary. celebrated the nation’s first statewide Father’s Day on June 19, His father was adamantly opposed to the idea, both because he 1910. Slowly, the holiday spread. In 1916, President Wilson wanted his son to follow in his footsteps as a condottiere, and honored the day by using telegraph signals to unfurl a flag in because, by becoming a Jesuit, Aloysius would give up all rights to Spokane when he pressed a button in Washington, D.C. In 1924, inheritance. When it became clear that the boy was intent on President Calvin Coolidge urged state governments to observe being a priest, his family tried to convince him to become a Father’s Day. secular priest and, later a bishop, so he could receive his inheritance. Aloysius, however, was not to be swayed, and his During the 1920s and 1930s, a movement arose to scrap Mother’s father finally relented. At the age of 17, he was accepted into the Day and Father’s Day altogether in favor of a single holiday, Jesuit novitiate in Rome; at the age of 19, he took vows of Parents’ Day. Every year on Mother’s Day, pro-Parents’ Day chastity, poverty, and obedience. While he was ordained a deacon groups rallied in New York City’s Central Park–a public reminder, at the age of 20, he never became a priest. said Parents’ Day activist and radio performer Robert Spere, “that In 1590, Saint Aloysius, suffering from his kidney problems and both parents should be loved and respected together.” other ailments, received a vision of the Archangel Gabriel, who Paradoxically, however, the Great Depression derailed this effort told him that he would die within a year. When a plague broke out to combine and de-commercialize the holidays. Struggling retailers in Rome in 1591, Saint Aloysius volunteered to work with plague and advertisers redoubled their efforts to make Father’s Day a victims, and he contracted the disease in March. He received the “second Christmas” for men, promoting goods such as neckties, Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick and recovered, but, in hats, socks, pipes and tobacco, golf clubs and other sporting another vision, he was told that would die on June 21, the octave goods, and greeting cards. day of the Feast of Corpus Christi that year. His confessor, St. Robert Cardinal Bellarmine, administered Last Rites, and Saint When World War II began, advertisers began to argue that Aloysius died shortly before midnight. A pious legend has it that celebrating Father’s Day was a way to honor American troops and Saint Aloysius's first words were the Holy Names of Jesus and support the war effort. By the end of the war, Father’s Day may not Mary, and his last word was the Holy Name of Jesus. In his short have been a federal holiday, but it was a national institution. In life, he burned brightly for Christ, which is why Pope Benedict XIII 1972, in the middle of a hard-fought presidential re-election named him the patron saint of youth at his canonization on campaign, Richard Nixon signed a proclamation making Father’s December 31, 1726. Day a federal holiday at last. Today, economists estimate that Americans spend more than $1 billion each year on Father’s Day St. Thomas More - June 22 gifts. A preacher, the Rev. James E. Smith of Carbondale, Illinois St. Thomas More, Martyr (Patron of Lawyers) St. Thomas became the oldest known father at age 101 when his twin More was born at London in 1478. After a thorough grounding in religion and the classics, he entered Oxford to study law. Upon daughters were born in 1949 to Anna, his 16-year-old wife. leaving the university he embarked on a legal career which took Today, the day honoring fathers is celebrated in the United States him to Parliament. In 1505, he married his beloved Jane Colt who on the third Sunday of June. In other countries–especially in bore him four children, and when she died at a young age, he Europe and Latin America–fathers are honored on St. Joseph’s married a widow, Alice Middleton, to be a mother for his young Day, a traditional Catholic holiday that falls on March 19. children. A wit and a reformer, this learned man numbered 2 Bishops and scholars among his friends, and by 1516 wrote his world-famous book "Utopia". He attracted the attention of Henry ELEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME VIII who appointed him to a succession of high posts and finally made him Lord Chancellor in 1529.