12th Sunday of Ordinary, Year B/ June 20, 2021 ~~ 12 Domingo de Tiempo Ordinario, Ano B / June 20, 2021 Church of the Nativity of Our Blessed Lady 1510 East 233rd Street Bronx, 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 Edna Augusta, Religious Education Coordinator Weekdays: 7:00am Sacrament of Matrimony Saturday: 9:00 am (followed by Eucharistic A minimum of 6 months is required to begin the process of Adoration and The Holy Rosary) the Sacrament of Matrimony. Please call the rectory to set up a meeting with the priest to discuss the process. Dates are not Rectory (Rectoria) Office Hours/ Horario de Oficina: reserved by phone contact. Monday-Fridays: 9:30am-2:30pm Lunes- Viernes: 9:30am-2:30pm Sacrament of Baptism (for Infants): Parents must be active members of our Parish and are Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confessions) required to attend one session of baptismal instruction held on Saturdays: After the 9:00am Mass Tuesdays from 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm. Please call the rectory to Sundays: After the 10:00am and 11:30am Masses make the necessary arrangements. Call the rectory outside the scheduled time. SACRAMENT OF THE SICK Weekly Prayer Groups (on Zoom) Please notify the rectory when a family member is sick to set Daily Rosary (7pm-English; 8pm Spanish/Espanol) up regular communion visits. Wednesdays/Miercoles: 7:00 – 9:00 pm (Spanish/Espanol) Thursdays: 7:00 – 9:00 pm (English) See inside for more details.

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 Fax: (718) 798-0628 Parish Email Address: Parish Website: [email protected] www.nativityofourblessedladychurch.org

12th Sunday of Ordinary Time / 12 domingo de tiempo ordinario  2021 (Year B/ Ano B)  Weekly Readings and Memorials

Sunday, June 20, 2021

Readings: (Jb 38:1, 8-11; 2 Cor 5:14-17; Mk 4:35-41) Please Pray for the sick:

10:00AM- Alvarado and Bullock Family (+) Ángela Aguilar, Jhasoa Agosto, Rafaelina Almonte; Elvin

Req: Yolanda Bullock Alvarado, Carmen Ávila, Angela Battle, Jorge Alberto Carlo, Luis Carlo, Ellary Crawford, Leon Daniels, Maritza Gonzalez, 11:30AM- Jesus Varela (+) Christina Graham; Edith Harris, Thomas Homan, Juana Jimenez, Req: Familia Lujan Valerie Johnson, Drosula Katsibra, Fr. George Kuhn, Lisbeth 1:00PM- Sr. Mary DeChantal (+) Labral, Manuel LaSalle, Antonio Lavado, Benjamin López,

Req: Edith Nwagboso Zaray Lugado, Lydia Meléndez-Santana, Joyce Millington,

Juana Moreira, Armando Reyes, Deacon Andy Rivera, Maria Rivera, Antonia Rodríguez, Shanique Rollins, Eric Roman,

Monday, June 21, 2021 Guillermina Rosario; Ashley Steadman, Ethan Robert Thomas, St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious/Religioso Maria Tobón, Victoria Torres, Marina Vázquez, Mildred Readings: (Genesis 12:1-9; Matthew 7:1-5) Vazquez, Aníbal Vázquez, Lucille Williams, Fabiola Yepes

7:00AM- Pascuala Francisco (+) & Req: Lujan Family All the Sick Mentioned Nightly in our English and Spanish Rosary Groups Tuesday, June 22, 2021 St. Paulinus of Nola, /obispo; St. John Fisher, bishop/obispo & The Sanctuary Lamp St. Thomas More, martyrs/martires was donated for the Intentions of Readings: (Genesis 13:2, 5-18; Matthew 7:6, 12-14) Mary White, Wendy & Dennis Taccetta, 7:00 AM- Marjorie & Floren Terstenjak (+) Heather Nelson Req: Lucille Williams for the recovery of Anne Daniels, Ashley Steadman & Elvin Alvarado Wednesday, June 23, 2021 Jennifer Martin, Ellary Crawford, Readings: (Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18; Matthew 7:15-20) Joyce Millington 7:00AM- Sr. Mary DeChantal (+) In memory of Req: Edith Nwagboso Kenneth White Neville Nelson, Joan Revan & Thursday, June 24, 2021 Pearl Blake Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist/ Marcella Bullock, Leon Bullock, Solemnidad de la Natividad de San Juan Bautista John Bullock, Jr., Readings: (Is 49:1-6; Acts 13:22-26; Lk 1:57-66, 80) Rene Avellez, Harvey Harris 7:00AM- Antoinette LoPerfido (+) Req: Burke Family Parishioners’ Weekly Contributions

Friday, June 25, 2021 Readings: (Genesis 17:1, 9-10, 15-22; Matthew 8:1-4) 7:00AM- María Elena Vázquez (+) req: Edna Augusta Mass Times Collection Total

Saturday, June 26, 2021 10:00am $1,911.00 Readings: (Genesis 18:1-15; Matthew 8:5-17) 9:00AM- Larise Kumar (+) $453.00 11:30am Req: Maureen Webb $883.00 11:00AM- Confirmation Mass 1:00pm

$3,247.00 Total

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On–Going Activity Reminders Reflections on Today’s Readings During the Pandemic Quarantine Period, our prayer and First Reading group activities continue via Zoom call/video: Job 38:1,8-11 Daily Prayer of the Rosary: The Lord answers Job's complaints. 7pm in English (except Wednesdays 6pm) Responsorial Psalm 8pm in Spanish (except Wednesdays 7pm; Thursdays at 6pm) Psalm 107:23-24,25-26,28-29,30-31 Religious Education Program: A song of praise to God for rescue Saturdays from 10am-2pm Second Reading Nativity Youth Group: 2 Corinthians 5:14-17 TBD Those in Christ are a new creation. Durante el período de cuarentena y pandémica, nuestras Gospel Reading actividades de oración y grupo continúan a través de una Mark 4:35-41 llamada / video de Zoom: Jesus calms the storm. Oración diaria del rosario: 7pm en inglés (excepto los miércoles 6pm) Background on the Gospel Reading 8pm en español (excepto los miércoles 7pm; jueves a las 6pm) As we continue in Ordinary Time, our reading today is Programa de educación religiosa: taken from the Gospel of Mark, the primary Gospel sábados de 10am-2pm reading in Lectionary Cycle B. Mark's Gospel presents a Grupo de jovenes: vivid portrait of Jesus, whose words and deeds show that TBD he is the Son of God. Today's Gospel describes the end All are invited to join: of a day of teaching in Jesus' ministry. Jesus taught the For Video Access/ Para Aceso por video: crowd in parables and then offered explanations of these https://us04web.zoom.us/j/2794843961… parables to his disciples. Jesus then led his disciples Meeting ID: 279 484 3961 # Password: 341895 # away from the crowds and into the boats that they will For Phone access/ para aces for telefono: use to cross the Sea of Galilee. The sea and its Dial/Marque: 1 ‐646‐558‐8656 surrounding area are the settings for Jesus' teachings and Meeting ID: 279 484 3961# miracles in this part of Mark's Gospel. Today's reading Password/contraseña: 341895# describes how Jesus calmed a storm at sea. It is the first of four miracles that are presented in sequence at this Something Funny/ Algo Gracioso point in Mark's Gospel. (Job 8:21 “He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, As is typical in Mark's Gospel, Jesus' disciples are and your lips with shouting.”) frightened by the sudden storm; they do little to inspire confidence in the reader. Mark notes the contrast between the disciples' terror and Jesus' peace. Jesus is sleeping, untroubled by what is going on around him. The disciples' words to Jesus are telling. They are familiar enough with Jesus to dare to wake him. Their words to him are words of reproach, questioning his care for them. A careful reader might wonder what the disciples expected Jesus to do. Are they more troubled by the storm or by Jesus' inattentiveness to their needs? How many of us have chided a family member or friend for not agreeing with our assessment of the severity of a situation? Today's Gospel offers evidence of Jesus' power and authority as he calms the storm. In his day, power over nature was believed to be a sign of divinity—only God calms storms. Jesus' rebuke of the storm also echoes the 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time / 12 domingo de tiempo ordinario  2021 (Year B/ Ano B)  rebuke he uses when he talks to and expels demons. In each situation, Jesus' power and authority is a sign of his Happy Father’s Day to all divinity. Indeed, the disciples are left wondering about Jesus' identity at the conclusion of today's Gospel. They fathers of Nativity Parish see before them a human being who acts with the authority and power of God. The disciples' uncertainty about Jesus' identity is a recurring them in Mark's "The father of one Gospel. who is right with God This Gospel is a metaphor for our lives. We are in the boat, the storms of life are raging around us, and like the will have much joy. disciples, we may believe that Jesus is unconcerned, or He who has a wise son “sleeping.” We hope that we will be as familiar with Jesus as his disciples. If we feel that Jesus is sleeping, will be glad in him." are we comfortable enough to wake Jesus and present (Proverbs 23:24) him with our needs? Jesus does not chide his disciples for waking him. Instead he chides them for their lack of faith, for their lack of perspective. When we bring our worries to God in prayer, we might just begin to learn to see things from God's perspective. https://www.loyolapress.com/catholic-resources/liturgical- year/sunday-connection/

Feliz Día de los Padres a todos los padres de

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“Mucho se alegrará el padre del justo: Y el que engendró sabio se gozará con él.” (Proverbios 23:24)

12th Sunday of Ordinary Time / 12 domingo de tiempo ordinario  2021 (Year B/ Ano B)  Special Congratulations to our Graduates:

Middle/ Junior High School Michael Ihedioha Chinazaekpere Ruth Ihezuo Brenda Lujan-Varela Ekene Uwasomba Anthony Reyes-Galvez Alexis Toledo Ekene Uwasomba Confirmation Mass/ Misa de Christopher Yepes Confirmación - Elizabeth Yepes Saturday (sabado), June (junio) High School 26th- 11:00AM Ugochinyere Akobundu Most Reverend Josu Iriondo, Tyanna Hemmings celebrant/celebrante Giovanni Martinez

Candidates for Confirmation Ugochinyere Akobundu Liliana Clavijo Michael Ihedioha Chinazaekpere Ruth Ihezuo Brenda Lujan-Varela Obianuju Obumneme-Akaneme Daniel Okafor Anthony Reyes-Galvez “For I know the plans I have for Ekene Uwasomba you,” declares the LORD, “plans to Christopher Yepes prosper you and not to harm you, Elizabeth Yepes plans to give you hope and a future.”- Jeremiah 29:11

12th Sunday of Ordinary Time / 12 domingo de tiempo ordinario  2021 (Year B/ Ano B)  Saint of the Week/Santo de La Semana On this Father’s Day let us say a prayer to one of the most important father-figures in our faith, one who never spoke a Thomas More/ San Tomas Moro word in the Scriptures but played a vital role in our (1478-1535) salvation history. Let us ask for his intercession in the lives of our fathers as they work to take care of and provide for (June/ Junio 22) their families. He was, of course, a man for all seasons...... a classical scholar, a humanist, a statesman, a politician, a man of prayer, the author of the famed Utopia, a theologian, and a lawyer Prayer to Saint Joseph by profession. To you, O blessed Joseph, do we come in our tribulation, and having implored the help of your most holy spouse, we And yet, St. Thomas More is also a man for our times and a model confidently invoke your patronage also. Through that charity for us today as we strive to serve God in our social, religious, and which bound you to the Immaculate Virgin Mother of God and familial relationships. through the paternal love with which you embraced the Child Jesus, we humbly beg you graciously to regard the inheritance His contemporaries knew him to possess a keen wit, a merry sense which Jesus Christ has purchased by his Blood, and with your of humor, and a great common sense. He was a warm and friendly power and strength to aid us in our necessities. man who always seemed more concerned about the needs of his friends than his own needs. His friendship extended to looking after O most watchful Guardian of the Holy Family, defend the the poor in his village and to singing in his church choir. chosen children of Jesus Christ; O most loving father, ward off from us every contagion of error and corrupting influence; O Inclined in his early years to the priesthood—he spent four years our most mighty protector, be propitious to us and from heaven living the austere life of the Carthusian Order—Thomas eventually assist us in our struggle with the power of darkness; and, as opted for married life. After the death of his first wife, who bore once you rescued the Child Jesus from deadly peril, so now him four children, he married again—a widow, whose daughter he protect God's Holy Church from the adopted. The family prayed together snares of the enemy and from all daily, and St. Thomas More himself set adversity; shield, too, each one of us aside all Fridays for his own spiritual by your constant protection, so that, exercises. supported by your example and your Another example of his being a man for aid, we may be able to live piously, to all seasons and for our time, St. Thomas die holily, and to obtain eternal More believed in the education of happiness in heaven. Amen. women—a truly radical notion for his time. His daughters were better educated than most men of this era. Oracion a San Jose

Bienaventurado San José, acudimos en Thomas More was a brilliant lawyer and, nuestra tribulación; y, después de later, a very fine judge. Because of this distinguished service, he invocar el auxilio de vuestra Santísima was appointed Lord Chancellor of England. Henry VIII, his court, Esposa, and most of the English clergymen tried to persuade Thomas More solicitamos también confiadamente vuestro patrocinio. to approve the king's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and to take the Oath of Supremacy—which acknowledged that Henry VIII was the head of the Church of England instead of the Pope. Por aquella caridad que con la Inmaculada Virgen María, Madre de Dios, os tuvo unido, y por el paterno amor More held firm to the teachings of the , despite con que abrazasteis al Niño Jesús, humildemente os suplicamos knowing well that to remain steadfast meant certain execution. He volváis benigno los ojos a la herencia que was imprisoned and beheaded in London in 1535. con su Sangre adquirió Jesucristo, y con vuestro poder Four hundred years later (in 1935) he was canonized as a saint and y auxilio socorráis nuestras necesidades. martyr. His feast day is celebrated on June 22nd. Proteged, oh providentísimo Custodio de la Sagrada Familia, Lord, let me be able in argument, accurate in analysis, correct in la escogida descendencia de Jesucristo; apartad de nosotros conclusion, candid with my clients, and honest with my adversaries. toda mancha de error y corrupción; asistidnos propicio, desde el Stand beside me in Court so that I will not, in order to win a point, Cielo, fortísimo libertador nuestro en esta lucha lose my soul. — Sir Thomas More con el poder de las tinieblas; y, como en otro tiempo librásteis al Niño Jesús del inminente peligro de su vida, así, ahora, defended Source: http://www.stmaustin.org/patron.shtm la Iglesia Santa de Dios de las asechanzas de sus enemigos y de toda adversidad, y a cada uno de nosotros protegednos con (Espanol) perpetuo patrocinio, para que, a ejemplo vuestro y sostenidos por http://www.ewtn.com/spanish/Saints/Tom%C3%A1s_Moro_6_25.h vuestro auxilio, podamos santamente vivir y piadosamente morir y tm alcanzar en el Cielola eterna felicidad. Amén