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St. Rose of Lima Church 269 Parkville Avenue • Brooklyn, New York 11230 Rectory (718) 434-8040 stroseoflimabrooklyn.org Rev. Łukasz Trocha, Pastor Sister Maureen Sullivan, Pastoral Associate Rev. José Lopez, Hispanic Ministry Rev. Jon Ukaegbu, Parochial Vicar MASS SCHEDULE: RECITATION OF THE ROSARY: Monday to Friday Saturday: 5:00 PM (Satisfies Sunday Obligation) At 8:40AM before the 9:00AM Mass and after the Sunday: 8:00 AM, 9:00 AM (Español), 10:45AM, 10:45AM Mass on Sundays. 12:30 PM (Polish) Weekday: 9:00 AM THE DIVINE MERCY CHAPLET: Monday to Holydays: 9:00 AM and 7:30 PM Saturday after the 9:00 AM Mass. RECTORY SUMMER OFFICE HOURS: MIRACULOUS MEDAL NOVENA: Wednesdays after Monday through Friday: 9:30AM to 1:00PM the 9:00 AM Mass. Tuesday through Thursday: 7:00PM to 9:00PM Saturday 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM SPANISH CHARISMATIC PRAYER GROUP: Sunday: 9:00 AM to 12:30PM Tuesdays at 7:00 PM. Emergency calls at any time SPANISH CURSILLO ULTREA: Wednesdays at CONFESSIONS: Saturdays from 4:00PM to 4:45PM in 7:00PM the lower church (or any time upon request for appointment). FILIPINO/ENGLISH MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER GROUP: Thursdays at 7:00 PM. ANOINTING OF THE SICK: The communal celebration of this sacrament takes place twice a year FILIPINO APOSTOLATE: Mass and music in the within the Eucharist in early October and May (or any Filipino language every second Sunday of the month at other time upon request). 2:00 PM followed by the social gathering. WEDDINGS: Couples must make an appointment with RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CLASSES: one of the parish priests at least six months prior Sunday morning from 9:00AM to 10:30AM. to their intended wedding date. BAPTISMS: For Baptism in English or Español, please contact Sister Maureen. Parents must register and attend a class prior to their child’s Baptism. For Baptism in Polish please contact fr. Luke. EUCHARISTIC ADORATION AND BENEDICTION: Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament takes place every Saturday morning in the lower church from 8:00AM to 9:00AM. Come at any time during this Holy Hour to pray in the presence of the Eucharistic Lord. Benediction takes place at 8:50 AM. 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time July 22nd, 2018 MASS INTENTIONS RECTORY SUMMER HOURS SATURDAY, July 21st Monday - Friday 9:30AM - 12 Noon 9:00 Purgatorial Society (July) Marion Romano Tuesday - Thursday 7:00PM - 9:00PM 5:00PM Deceased Members of the Bottalico & Saturday 9:30AM - 4:30PM Variale Families Sunday 9:00AM - 12:30PM 8:00PM Philip Amashukeli - zdrowie duszy & ciała (Polish) MISSION APPEAL On Saturday, July 14th, and Sunday July 15th, during SUNDAY, July 22nd each Mass, Fr. Paul Anel and Fr. Alex spoke to us on be- 8:00 + Carl Milea, Sr. half of Heart’s Home USA. Due to your great generosity, + Carl Milea, Jr. we were able to raise $1,798 for this noteworthy mission. 9:00 + Maria Hermina Cox 10:45 People of the Parish REST IN THE LORD 12:30PM + Jan & + Alfred Dobrzyńscy (Polish) For several weeks we have listened to readings that have recounted just how arduous the work of prophets MONDAY, July 23rd and disciples can be. In today’s Gospel, the Lord Jesus 9:00 Salvatore Thomas Calio - Health, Peace & listens to the reports of those he had sent out “two by Wellbeing two” to minister to the people. After the apostles reported TUESDAY, July 24th what they had done, Jesus, recognizing their fatigue, says, 9:00 + Rose Ventrice “Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest WEDNESDAY, July 25h awhile” (Mark 6:31). Perhaps this is what the Lord is tell- 9:00 + Judith & Jose Bula ing his disciples in the year 2018 as well. We need to pause on our journey of discipleship and simply rest in THURSDAY, July 26th the Lord. Sunday Mass provides many opportunities for 9:00 Deceased Members of the Morales Family quiet times, particularly during the periods of silence fol- FRIDAY, July 27th lowing the readings. Why not take the time today to allow 9:00 + Harry Sagar the saving word of the Lord to penetrate your heart during SATURDAY, July 28th those silent times? Ask the Lord to renew you in body, 9:00 Purgatorial Society (July) mind, and spirit for the arduous work of discipleship. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc 5:00PM People of the Parish 8:00PM (Polish) GOD WITHIN God dwells in a secret and hidden way in all souls, in SUNDAY, July 29th their very substance, for if God did not, they could not 8:00 + Michael Kelly exist at all. 9:00 Gaudencio Velez -St. John of the Cross 10:45 Deceased Members of the Vitucci & D’Orazio Families 12:30PM (Polish) PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK OF THE PARISH Vincent R. Romano, Janice Lackner, Roula Gonzaga, Agatha Angela Miller, Theresa Cordero Ramos, Carol Dukes, Howard Cordelia, Anthony DeMarco, Maria Matos, Frances Valentine, Cathryn & Michael Melnyk, Joseph Cuaplacuatl, Dr. Stephen R. Marrone, Frederick Schrimpe, Lisa, Jessica, Maureen Kelly, Junior Smith Lambert WEEKLY COLLECTION 1st Collection - Your Gift to St. Rose of Lima Parish 2nd Collection - Contribution Air Conditioning MONTHLY DONATIONS JULY CATHOLIC CEMETERIES Host: In Loving Memory of Kenneth Young For information and availability options Donated by Marie Young please call (718) 894-4888 COLLECTION COMPARISON Weekend of (07/14/18 - 07/15/18) $3,170 Weekend of (07/15/17 - 07/16/17) $4,128 CHRIST’S PRESENCE IN THE WORLD TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION There’s a bit of a “missing link” in the first two The American Revolution cleared the way for sentences of today’s Gospel from Mark. In the first, the freedom of religion in the former colonies, since the apostles return from having been sent out on mission two colonies had always been a more religiously tolerant by two (“one who is sent” is the meaning of “apostle”). place than the old country. Even so, colonial laws Their instructions were to preach repentance, drive out restricted the practice of the Catholic faith, and just as in demons, and heal the sick in Jesus’ name. In the second England, Americans who desired to be priests or nuns had sentence, Jesus tells them to come away with him and rest to go to the Netherlands or France. As political storm a while. It would be nice for us to imagine that, between clouds gathered in France, an American woman, Mother those two sentences, a look of amazed gratitude and Bernardina Matthews, the prioress of the Hoogstraeten pleasure crossed the face of Jesus as he hears of the Carmel in Holland, made a brave move. With two other kingdom proclaimed in his name, and how they didn’t American nuns, her nieces, and a Dutch sister, she came have to shake the dust off their feet anywhere. They to Port Tobacco, Maryland, in 1790. Within twenty years deserved a rest! It might not be bad for us, when we the community had grown to twenty, although by 1823 gather together with Jesus as the apostles do today, to do their farm failed and they had to move to Baltimore and this kind of debriefing, allowing the Lord to hear what open a school. The Carmelite order requires we’ve sought to do in his name, our successes, our contemplation and cloister, so in time the school was failures, our need to get away with him for a while to be closed. The Port Tobacco land had long since been sold, fortified for further work in God’s name. For we, the but in 1976 a community of nuns was able to return baptized, are not only the flock of Jesus Christ; through thanks to loyal neighbors who had worked for forty years water and the power of the Spirit we have also become for their restoration. Today, our original American the Body of Christ, the presence of the Shepherd for the convent is fully alive in prayer, hard work, and strong life of the world. community. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. -Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. TODAY’S READINGS SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES First Reading - I shall gather the remnant of my flock Sunday: Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time and bring them back to their meadow (Jeremiah 23:1-6). Monday: St. Bridget Psalm - The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall Tuesday: St. Sharbel Makhlūf want (Psalm 23). Wednesday: St. James Second Reading - You who were once far off have Thursday: Ss. Joachim and Anne become near by the blood of Christ (Ephesians 2:13-18). Saturday: Blessed Virgin Mary Gospel - When Jesus saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, and he began to teach them many things (Mark 6:30-34). The English translation of the Psalm Responses from the Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Mi 6:1-4, 6-8; Ps 50:5-6, 8-9, 16bc-17, 21, 23; Mt 12:38-42 Tuesday: Mi 7:14-15, 18-20; Ps 85:2-8; Mt 12:46-50 Wednesday: 2 Cor 4:7-15; Ps 126:1bc-6; Mt 20:20-28 Thursday: Jer 2:1-3, 7-8, 12-13; Ps 26:6-7ab, 8-11; Mt 13:10-17 Friday: Jer 3:14-17; Jer 31:10-13; Mt 13:18-23 Saturday: Jer 7:1-11; Ps 84:3-6a, 8a, 11; Mt 13:24-30 Sunday: 2 Kgs 4:42-44; Ps 145:10-11, 15-18; Eph 4:1-6; Jn 6:1-15 MUCH-NEEDED PRAYER Each Christian needs half an hour of prayer each day, Gustave Dore, ca.