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Church of the Nativity of Our Blessed Lady 1510 East 233Rd Street Bronx, New York 10466 First Sunday of Lent, Year B/ February 18, 2018 Primer Domingo de Cuaresma, Ano B/ 18 de febrero del 2018 Church of the Nativity of Our Blessed Lady 1510 East 233rd Street Bronx, New York 10466 Parish Clergy MASS SCHEDULE Rev. Cyprian Onyeihe, Administrator Sunday: English 10:00 am Rev. George Kuhn, Sunday Mass Associate Spanish 11:30 am Pastoral Staff Igbo 1:00pm Jhasoa Agosto, Music Director Weekdays: 7:00am Edna Augusta, Religious Education Coordinator Saturday: 9:00 am (followed by Eucharistic Sacrament of Matrimony Adoration and The Holy Rosary) A minimum of 6 months is required to begin the process of the Sacrament of Matrimony. Please call the rectory to set up Rectory (Rectoria) Office Hours/ Horario de Oficina: a meeting with the priest to discuss the process. Dates are not Monday-Fridays: 10am-3pm reserved by phone contact. Lunes-Viernes: 10am-3pm Sacrament of Baptism (for Infants): Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confessions) Parents must be active members of our Parish and are Saturdays: After the 9:00am Mass required to attend one session of baptismal instruction held on Sundays: After the 10:00am and 11:30am Masses Tuesdays from 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm. Please call the rectory to Call the rectory outside the scheduled time. make the necessary arrangements. Weekly Prayer Groups SACRAMENT OF THE SICK Wednesdays/Miercoles: 7:00 – 9:00 pm (Spanish/Espanol) Please notify the rectory when a family member is sick to set Thursdays: 7:00 – 9:00 pm (English) up regular communion visits. Nativity of Our Blessed Lady Rectory Nativity of Our Blessed Lady Convent Nativity of Our Blessed Lady School 1531 East 233rd St. Bronx, N.Y. 10466 1534 East 233rd St Bronx, N.Y. 10466 3893 Dyre Ave, Bx., N.Y. 10466 Office: (718) 324-3531 Office: (718) 324-2188 Fax: (718) 798-0628 School Website: Parish Email Address: Parish Website: www.nativityofourblessedlady.org [email protected] www.nativityofourblessedladychurch.org 1st Sunday of Lent/ Primer Domingo de Cuaresma 2018 (Year B/ Ano B) Weekly Readings and Memorials Sunday, February 18, 2018 Readings: (GN 9:8-15; 1 PT 3:18-22; MK 1:12-15) 10:00AM- Mary Armstrong (+) Please Pray for the sick: Req: Thursday Prayer Group Ángel Alejandro, Elvin Alvarado, Juana Alvarado, 11:30AM- Miguel Lopez (+) Carmen Ávila, Angela Battle, Brian Bernard, Req: Maria Gomez-Cardenas Sgt. Tonia Chestnut, Alberta Chestnut, Lila Castro, 1:00PM- Leon Daniels, Katy DeProspo Juan Pablo Espinoza, Lori Figueroa, Monday, February 19, 2018 Rosalina Flores, Rafael Flores, Timothy Georges, Maritza Readings: (LV 19:1-2, 11-18; MT 25:31-46) Gonzalez, Christina Graham; Edith & Harvey Harris, Ghislaine Jacobs, Drosula Katsibra, Jan Korszun, Benjamin 7:00AM- Intentions of Benedicta & Jude Izuka López, Michael Martínez, Nancy Mazzella, Digna Meléndez, Req: Izuka Family Herminia Meléndez, Analiza Miranda, Leonora Moorehead, Avelino Moreno, Eulalio Moreno, Juana Moreira, Herminia Tuesday, February 20, 2018 Narvaez, Nicole Niles, Gerri Orfei , Juana Becerra Maldonado Readings: (IS 55:10-11; MT 6:7-15) and Family, Justin Quirke, Sattee Ramkissoon, Deacon Albert 7:00AM- Marcelle Davis (+) Rivera, Antonia Rodríguez, Eric Roman, Guillermina Req: Maureen Webb Rosario, Ashley Steadman, Theresa Sylvan, Adrienne Thomas, Victoria Torres, Andrew “Morris” Vavrica, Marina Vázquez, Aníbal Vázquez, Iris Velásquez, Lucille Williams Wednesday, February 21, 2018 Please call the rectory to submit the name of an ill family St. Peter Damian member or friend. Readings: (JON 3:1-10; LK 11:29-32) 7:00AM: Intentions of Benedicta & Jude Izuka Req: Izuka Family The Sanctuary Lamp Thursday, February 22, 2018 was donated for the Intentions of Chair of St. Peter the Apostle Mary, Wendy, and Keneth White, Readings: (1 PT 5:1-4; MT 16:13-19) for the recovery of 7:00AM- Intentions of Benedicta & Jude Izuka Ashley Steadman & Elvin Alvarado Req: Izuka Family Jennifer Martin In memory of Neville Nelson, Joan Revan & Friday, February 23, 2018 Pearl Blake St. Polycarp/ San Policarpo Marcella Bullock, Leon Bullock, Readings: (EZ 18:21-28; MT 5:20-26) John Bullock, Jr., 7:00AM- Intentions of Benedicta & Jude Izuka Req: Izuka Family Parishioners’ Weekly Contributions Saturday, February 24, 2018 Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturdays Mass Times Collection Total Readings: (DT 26:16-19; MT 5:43-48) 9:00AM- Gloria Milk (+) 10:00am $1,903.67 Req: Chiara Genna 11:30am $575.68 1:00pm $188.00 Total $2,667.35 Ash Wednesday/ TBA Miercoles de Cenizas 1st Sunday of Lent/ Primer Domingo de Cuaresma 2018 (Year B/ Ano B) Actividades Actuales - Adoración Eucarística durante toda la noche cada Message from the primer viernes del mes, 7pm (viernes) hasta 6am (sábado). -Misa de Sanación, cada primer sábado del mes, 12pm Music Ministry (Mediodía) Weekly Choir Practice/ -Acompáñenos para Adoración Eucarística y a rezar el Santo Rosario los sábados, inmediatamente después de la Práctica Semanal con el Coro Misa de las 9:00 am. Tuesdays- 6:45pm-9:00pm (English) Jueves- 6:45pm-9:00pm (Espanol) -La Sociedad del Rosario del Altar da la bienvenida a nuevos miembros. Para todas las damas interesadas por favor Children’s Choir/ Coro de Niños venga al rezo del santo rosario los sábados después de la Misa Saturdays- 12:15pm-1:30pm de 9:00am. (Excluding the 1st Saturday of the month) -El Grupo de Niños, cada dos semanas, los sábados de 12pm- All are welcome to join us! 2pm en la iglesia. Todas edades están bienvenidos. Por favor Todos están bienvenidos a acompañarnos! contacte a Edna por más información, 917-346-5378. Learn to sing the Liturgy/ -Todos están invitados a asistir a las reuniones de El Grupo de Oración (en español) los miércoles de 7:00 a 9:00pm en la Aprenda Cantar la Liturgia Iglesia. Para más información por favor contacte a la Rectoría. Schola Cantorum (Music Academy) nd Every 2 Saturday of the month -Grupo de Oración (en inglés) cada jueves a las 7:00pm en la iglesia. Cada 2ndo sábado del mes 11:00am-12 :00pm On–Going Activity Reminders Nativity Parish Harvest 2017 -Monthly all-night Eucharistic Adoration every st Cosecha Parroquial 2017 1 Friday of the month, 7pm (Friday) to 6am Pledged/Promesas: $45,499.02 (Saturday). Collected/Colectado: $41,419.02 st -Monthly Healing Mass, every 1 Saturday if the Outstanding/ Pendiente: $4,080.00 Month- 12pm (noon) Number of Pledges/Numero de Promesas: 115 -Join us for Weekly Eucharistic Adoration and to Thank you for your generosity and support of your parish! pray the Holy Rosary on Saturdays, immediately after ! Gracias por su generosidad y apoyo a su parroquia! the 9:00am Mass. - The Altar Rosary Society welcomes new members. Any ladies interested in joining this group, please come Parish International Celebration to Saturday prayer of the Rosary after the 9am Mass. Sunday, March 11th -Nativity Kids Group every 2 weeks, Saturdays 12pm- Mass– 10am 2pm in the church. All ages welcome! Please call Edna for more information, 917-346-5378 (only 1 Mass this Sunday) -Spanish Charismatic Prayer Group - Wednesdays, 7:00PM-9:00PM. (For more information please contact the Rectory. -Weekly Prayer Group (in English) Thursdays from 7:00pm to 9:00pm in the church. -Weekly Movie Night, Mondays - 7pm-9pm in the church. 1st Sunday of Lent/ Primer Domingo de Cuaresma 2018 (Year B/ Ano B) Lent/ Cuaresma 2018 Celebrating Black History Month: Lenten Offering (for Adults and Children) The Saints St. Cyprian of Carthage/ San Cipriano de Cartago What will be your Lenten Sacrifice and Offering this th year? Children can pick up their Lenten Offering (September 16 ) In the middle of the third century, the Church was still being Booklet in the entrance of the Church starting Ash persecuted. The fierce persecution of Emperor Decius claimed the Wednesday. life of Pope St. Fabian. The Church was without a pope for nearly a ¿Cuál será su Sacrificio Cuaresmal y Ofreciendo este year. A holy priest of Rome, Cornelius, was elected in 251. He año? Los niños pueden recoger su Folleto de accepted because he loved Christ. He would serve the Church as Ofrecimiento Cuaresmal en la entrada de la iglesia pope even if his ministry would cost him his life. That is why Pope Cornelius was so greatly admired throughout the world. The bishops empezado el Miércoles de Cenizas. of Africa were especially outspoken in their love and loyalty to the pope. Bishop Cyprian of Carthage sent him letters of The Sacrament of Reconciliation during Lent encouragement and support. Cyprian had been a convert at the age of twenty-five. He had astonished the Christians of Carthage by pledging a vow of perpetual chastity right before his baptism. He • Saturdays following the 9am Mass had eventually become a priest and in 249 a bishop. • Sundays after all Masses Bishop Cyprian greatly encouraged Pope Cornelius by reminding • “Reconciliation Monday”, him that during the present persecution in Rome not a single March 26th (schedule TBA) Christian had given up the faith. St. Cyprian's writings explain the love that Christians should have for the whole Church. This love • Will be available upon should be for the pope as well as for the local diocese request and parish. Cyprian wrote a scholarly work on the unity of the Church. This remains an important topic for all times, including our own. El Sacramento de Pope St. Cornelius died in exile at the port of Rome Reconciliación durante in September, 253. Because he suffered so much as pope, he is considered a martyr. St. Cyprian died five Cuaresma years later during the persecution of Valerian. He was • Sábados después de la beheaded at Carthage on September 14, 258. Together they share a feast day to remind us of the Misa de 9:00am unity that the Church should always enjoy.
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