CHURCH OF ST. CHARLES

644 CLAWSON STREET, OAKWOOD HEIGHTS, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10306

AUGUST 25, 2019 TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Pastoral Staff Sacramental Life Pastor Schedule Rev. Louis R. Weekend Masses Parochial Vicar Saturday Evening 4:00 & 5:30 PM Fr. Stefan Chanas Sunday 8:15, 9:30 & 10:45 AM Fr. Ruwandana Mendis 12:00, 1:15 Weekday Masses In Residence Monday - Friday 8:30 & 12 Noon Bishop John J. O’Hara Saturday 8:30 AM Weekend Associate Holy Days Masses Eve of the Holy Day 7:30 PM Rev. Msgr. Edmund J. Whalen 6:45, 8:30, 12:00 and 7:30 PM Permanent Deacons Deacon Stephen Tobon Parish Registration Deacon Lawrence Droge New parishioners need to register at the rectory. Pastoral Associate Please inform us if you move into or out of the parish.

Sr. Jeanine Conlon, O.P. Confessions School Principal Saturday: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, 5:00 - 5:30 PM, Mr. J. C. Kiernan and after Mass on the Eve of a Holy Day.

Religious Education Coordinator Ms. Kerry Quinn Second Sunday of the month at 2:30 PM Instruction Director of Music for parents of the children to be baptized to be ar- Mr. Paul Light ranged at the rectory. SPONSOR CERTIFICATES REQUIRED for Godparents and also a copy of the Contact Information child’s birth certificate. Rectory School 644 Clawson Street 200 Penn Avenue Marriages To arrange a marriage at St. Charles, consult with a (718) 987-2670 (718) 987-0200 priest or deacon at least six months prior to the pro- Fax: (718) 987-7950 Fax: (718) 987-8158 posed date and before social arrangements. Attend- Email Address Tuition Office ance at Pre-Cana and Natural Family Planning Clas- [email protected] (718) 987-5780 ses is required. Website: www.stcharlessi.org Anointing and Religious Education Communion of the Sick Regular administration of the Sacraments should be 200 Penn Avenue www.saintcharlesccd.org arranged for shut-ins by calling the rectory. Emer- (718) 979-6800 [email protected] gency sick calls anytime. Parish Office Hours Sunday 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM Religious Education Program Instruction for all grade levels beginning with first Monday - Friday 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM grade. For information call the Religious Education 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM Office. Saturday 10:30 AM - 6:30 PM 2 LITURGY CORNER

MONDAY – AUGUST 26 8:30 - Henry, Helen, & Elaine Sanjurjo - Mem. Weekly Offerings 12:00 - Mary & Natale Astuto - Mem.

TUESDAY - AUGUST 27 August 11, 2019 August 12, 2018 8:30 - Bella D’Iorio - Mem. $9,895.00 $10,353.41 12:00 - Mario Rotondo - Mem.

WEDNESDAY - AUGUST 28 8:30 - Robert Germino - Ann. Flowers, Wine & Hosts and Oil 12:00 - J. Molinari, Jr. - Ann.

The Wine & Hosts for the week of August 25, - Au- THURSDAY - AUGUST 29 gust 31, 2019 is offered in loving memory of 8:30 - Anthony Pizzuto - Mem. Barbara Finney Fonte at the request of Barbara 12:00 - Dorothy & Thomas Milazzo - Mem. L. Solan.

FRIDAY - AUGUST 30 If you would like to make arrangements to have the 8:30 - Deceased Members of the Ferrara & flowers for the main altar, the wine & hosts, or oils Caltabellotta Families - Mem. used for Mass candles in memory of a loved one or a 12:00 - Michael Valinoti- Mem.

SATURDAY - AUGUST 31 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 8:30 - Paul Fazio - Mem. Monday - Friday at 12:00-5:00 PM in the Chapel 4:00 - Dolores Laieta, Roseann Motto, & Griesi First Mondays at 7:30 PM in the Church Family - Mem. (cancelled in August) 5:30 - Olindo DiGregorio - Mem. First Fridays at 7:00 PM in the Church (cancelled in August) SUNDAY - SEPTEMBER 1 Call Jeannette Burrell (718-979-0034) or 8:15 - Thomas A. Coppola - Mem. Lois Galvin (718-948-8193) for information 9:30 - Parishioners of St. Charles 10:45 - Michael Moyle - Ann. Rosary and Novenas 12:00 - Leonor Rey - Mem. The Rosary is recited each weekday at 8:10 and 1:15 - Margaret Collins - Mem. 11:30 AM and on Saturday at 8:10 AM. The Miraculous Medal novena prayers are said after the 8:30 & 12:00 PM Masses on Mondays.

August 31 / September 1 Mass Schedule PLEASE NOTE 4:00 PM - Fr. Lawrence 10:45 - Fr. Mendis If a Mass is being said for a member of your family on Saturday evening or Sunday, it would be most 5:30 PM - Fr. Mendis 12:00 - Fr. Jerome fitting if someone from the family would bring up the 8:15 AM - Fr. Jerome 1:15 - Fr. Lawrence gifts at the Offertory. Please let one of the ushers 9:30 AM - Fr. Lawrence know before Mass. 3

PARISH MINISTRIES

Adult Faith Formation ST. CHARLES Wednesday - 1:30; rectory CHARGERS K/1ST Classes BASKETBALL CLINIC First Tuesday of the month at

8:00 PM; rectory This clinic is a great intro- Bereavement Group duction for young girls and boys to develop a Will resume in the Fall love for basketball. It runs on Saturday morn- Book Club ings in the St. Charles gym. It provides these Third Thursday each month at 4:00 PM; rectory new players with skills and a basic understand- Caregivers Support Group ing of the rules of the game. Last year with so Thursday - 9:30 - 11:30 AM; rectory much interest we were able to put a team in the Choir (Adult) CYO K/1 Biddy division. It was a great success Thursday at 7:30 PM; church and we will continue to offer this option this Divine Mercy Devotion Friday at 3:00 PM; chapel year. The cost is $150 (10 sessions); dates are Eucharistic Ministers September 21 and 28, October 5, 12, 19, 26 and First Fridays at 7:00 PM; church November 2, 9, 16 and 23; 9:00 am - 10:00 am. Legion of Mary For more information or if you have any ques- Wednesday at 4:00 PM; rectory chapel tions, please send an email to Prayer Group & Holy Hour [email protected]. First Monday of the month at 7:30 PM; church Prayer Shawl/Blanket Ministry Last Friday of the month at 10:00 AM; rectory Religious Education Classes Monday 3:45 - 5:15 PM Grades 6 & 7 Wednesday 3:45 - 5:15 PM Grades 1-5 Special Needs: Wednesday 5:30 - 6:00 PM The next book club meeting will take place on St. Vincent de Paul Society Thursday, September 19th at 4:00 PM in the rec- Meeting - Second Tuesday of month at 1:30 PM; tory. The book we will be discussing in Educat- rectory ed by Tara Westover . Educated is an inspiring Food Pantry open 2nd & 4th Tuesday of every reminder that knowledge is indeed power. It is month 11:30 AM -1:30 PM; rectory a miraculous memoir that reminds us that edu- Teen Club cation should not be taken for granted. New Sunday at 7:00 PM; auditorium member are always welcome. Women’s Worship Wednesdays - TBA

Bingo is held every Tuesday WEDDING MUSIC evening in the auditorium start- If you are planning a wedding in the near fu- ing at 7:30 PM. Early bird is at ture and would like to arrange for music, 7:15 PM. Doors open at 6:00 PM. please, call the rectory two months prior to the wedding, and leave a message for Paul 4 Light, our Music Director at (718) 987- PARISH NEWS

ANNUAL BISHOP AHERN CALENDAR OF EVENTS August 26, - September 1, 2019 MEMORIAL LIFE MARCH AND MOTORCADE Monday - August 26 Spiritual Direction - 7:30 PM; rectory The Missionary Image of Our Lady of Gua- dalupe will be present. The march will begin Tuesday - August 27 with Mass on Saturday, August 31st at 9:00 St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry - 11:30 AM - AM at Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, 5411 1:30 PM; rectory Amboy Road. The march will continue to Bingo at 7:30 PM; doors open at 6:00 PM; early Staten Island University Hospital South, 375 bird 7:15 PM Seguine Avenue. For more information, call the Staten Island Right to Life League at 646- Wednesday - August 28 662-39014 or email [email protected]. Legion of Mary - 4:00 PM; rectory chapel

Thursday - August 29 FLOCKNOTE Caregivers - 9:30 AM; rectory Cardinal Dolan together with Fr. Jerome Friday - August 30 want to communicate more effectively with you through the technology of today. The Saturday - August 31 Archdiocese has provided us with a tool called Flocknote so that we will be better Sunday - September 1 equipped to keep our parishioners informed of parish events, Archdiocesan announce- RELIGIOUS EDUCATION ments, etc. There are two easy ways to con- PROGRAM nect. 1. Visit our parish at: www.flocknote.com/

SCBstatenisland and sign up. Our Religious Education Program is now regis- 2. Text stcharlesb to 84576 from your cell tering students for the 2019-2020 academic phone to subscribe to Flocknote. year. Students entering 1st grade should be This is a great opportunity for you to get registered by June. Classes are available for plugged into things going on in our parish. PreK and Kindergarten. After school and even- ing appointments can only be scheduled by email request at [email protected] WEEKLY COFFEE or by calling the Religious Education Office HOUR (718-979-6800). Just a reminder that you are invited every week after the 9:30 Mass for coffee and donuts in the auditorium. 5 WE PRAY...WE CELEBRATE...WE REMEMBER

THE GET WELL LIST

Keith Alaimo Rosaria Lardaro WE REMEMBER Paul Alaimo Sr. Kathleen Leonard Judith Astuto Elizabeth Linton Eternal rest grant unto their souls, O Lord. Denise Bianchi Anthony Locicero Jr. And let perpetual light shine upon them. Joseph Bisking Carol Ann Lopez May they rest in peace. Amen. Joan Boragi Lissette Lopez May their souls and the souls of the faithful departed The Briuante & Vlahos Ariana Lore rest in peace. Amen Family & Mary P. Lauren Marie Ray S. Coco Madeline Buonpane Virginia McBride Caroline Caffiero Dolores McGann Kathleen J. Leonard Mary Campitelli Jim McKenna Jeison Almonte Lee Canning Alfred Merendino Jacqueline Mustronicola Marietta Canning Barbara Miller Douglas Schultz Ronald Carrubba Benita Mitchell Cantale Judy Casey Kelly Ann Morici Marty Casey Peter Morici Nick Castagna Judy Naples MARRIAGE BANNS Grace Castelao Kerri Naples We Celebrate Lawrence Ciminieri Virginia Novaro We ask the family of St. Charles to Elaine Cupak Eileen O’Neill Teresa Deegan Christian Pepo pray for the following couples who will receive Frank Deegan Eileen Raineri the Sacrament of Marriage Coney DeSilva Ella Reilly Albert DiCostanzo & Kerry Shannon Judy DeSilva Lee Rhatigan Andrew DiPadova Deborah Rossetti Joseph Elia Dorothy Sabatell We Invite You to Dorothy Fleming James SanFilippo Become a Parishioner Danielle Flores Vincent Santore Please fill out the form below and drop it in the James Gallagher Dolores & Tony Sclafani William Guli Anthony Scocco collection basket next weekend. A census card Cathy Harris Jerry Scotti will be mailed to you for your completion then Emily Harris Weslee Sernitsky return it to the rectory. Paula Herbst Maureen Shaughnessy Cheryl Houss Marie Starita NAME:______Savannah Huffman Abigail Taylor Tony Imperatrice Jude Riley Taylor ADDRESS: Helen Rinato Istico Alex Trebek Daniel Jacobs Theresa Verry ______Ellen James Fred Volk Sam Jarmer Maria Volpe Colleen Kaplan Christopher Wandy Gary & Harriette Kaye Ella Weaver ______Jeannette Castelao Keane

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PARISH NEWS

St. Charles School Alumni Information

Thank you for your interest in being part of The first day of school for Monday, Wednesday, the St. Charles School alumni family. We Friday: PK-3 year olds will be on Monday, Sep- look forward to being able to share with you tember 9, 2019. The first day of school for Tues- all the wonderful things going on at the day, Thursday: PK-3 year olds will be on Tuesday, school and to keeping you updated on school September 10, 2019. The AM session runs from and parish events. 8:15 AM to 10:45 AM. The full day session runs from 8:15 AM to 2:30 PM. Please see the teachers’ First Name of Alumnus/Alumna: website for orientation information. ______The first day of school for UPK students will be Maiden Name of Alumna (if applicable): Thursday, September 5, 2019. The UPK school day schedule will be abbreviated on the 5th; please ______see the teacher’s summer letter home for more in- Last Name of Alumnus/Alumna: formation on times. ______Kindergarten through 8th students will have Current Home Address: their first day of school on Thursday, September 5, 2019. It is a full day of school, however, there ______will be NO BUS SERVICE available on September Current E-mail Address: 5th or 6th. The hot lunch program with Nucci’s will be available starting on Thursday, September ______5th. Year of Graduation from St. Charles:

On the first two days of school, kindergarten stu- ______dents and parents will follow a 15 minute delayed Clubs, Sports, Events involved with while start to allow time for parents to be with the child a St. Charles School student: on the first day of school. More information from the kindergarten teachers will be given before ______school starts. Please return this by placing it in the box in the church vestibule. You can register online Students should be in their “spring uniforms” in by going to www.SaintCharlesSchoolSI.org September. and clicking on the “Support Us” tab, fol- lowed by the “Alumni” dropdown.

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FROM SLAVE TO CATHOLIC PRIEST…. Many years ago in grammar school, I distinctly remember a funny story that my fourth grade teacher told us. This teacher, along with her family, were vacationing in the south, I think in Georgia in the early 1960’s. One day they decided to wash their clothes at the laundromat in the town. The teacher told the class that she saw a sign in the laundry that read “colored only”. Not knowing, she brought her colored clothes to that particular room only to find out to her chagrin that the sign did not refer to clothes at all but to black persons. Coming from New York City where there was nothing like this, she and the family were very embarrassed to say the least! Well, a great many things have changed in the since 1960. Thanks to the equal rights movement, great strides have been made in the United States so that all of us might truly enjoy the benefits of freedom. I suppose that racism and discrimination will always be with us as we’re all affected by original sin. It’s sad to say, but racism also existed within the in this country in the nineteenth and twen- tieth centuries. You might never have heard of a priest by the name of Fr. Augustus Tolton. Fr. Tolton was the first black priest ordained in the United States. John Augustus Tolton was born as a slave in Brush Creek, Mis- souri on April 1, 1854. He and his family escaped during the civil war by bravely crossing the Mis- souri River into the free state of Illinois. According to one biographer, when they reached freedom, the future priest’s mother tuned to him and said, “John Boy, you’re free. Never forget the goodness of the Lord.” Maybe it was those inspiring words of his mother that gave Augustus Tolton the courage to give his life for God and the church. Growing up in Quincy, Illinois, Tolton was allowed to attend St. Peter’s Catholic School which was an all white parish. A priest by the name of Fr. Peter McGirr took an interest in the young man and gave him instructions in the faith. Tolton was baptized and received Holy Communion. Fr. McGirr recognized that the Lord had great plans for this young black man. He decided to become a priest. Unfortunately, no American seminary would accept him. Despite this, Tolton graduated from the lo- cal high school and then went on to college. In 1880, he entered the seminary in and was ordained a priest six years later. Fr. Tolton expected to be sent to an African parish. Surprisingly, his superiors assigned him to the United States. He eventually became the pastor of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church and School in Quincy, Illi- nois. Later on, because of racial tensions in that city, Fr. Tolton was reassigned to . There in that city at St. Monica’s Parish, he wore himself out with his labors for God and for souls. He helped the poor and the sick, fed the hungry and brought many souls to the Lord. He was known as “Good Father Gus.” Unfortunately, the priest exhausted himself with all his good work. He died unexpectedly on retreat at the early ago of only 43 years in 1897. Even though Fr. Tolton suffered terribly because of discrimination, he persevered in his vocation and exhibited an inner peace rooted in his great love for Jesus Christ. He may someday be canonized a saint. On June 12, 2019, Francis signed a decree advancing the cause of the , Augustus Tolton and promoting his heroic virtue. Through the love of Christ in his heart, Fr. Tolton was able to overcome many obstacles in his life. Maybe there is a lesson here for each of us - black, brown, red, yellow or white! Sincerely in Christ,

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