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Sacred Heart of Jesus Roman Catholic Church Sacred Heart of Jesus Roman Catholic Church Mission Statement The Roman Catholic Faith Community of Sacred Heart of Jesus welcomes all! Guided by the Holy Spirit, we proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ through Eucharist, Worship, Education and Service. We are committed to build the Kingdom of God in our world. Sacred Heart is not just a parish—it’s a way of life. Mass Schedule Saturday Vigil—5:00pm Sunday 9:30am, 11:00am, 12:30pm, 5:00pm Monday—Saturday at 9:00am Sacred Heart of Jesus Church 215-35 38th Avenue Holydays Bayside, NY 11361 Eve of Holyday at 7:30pm 718-428-2200 718-428-5840 (fax) Holyday at 9:00am & 7:30pm www.sacredheartbayside.net www.facebook.com/SHBayside Devotions Twitter: @SHBayside Rosary: Monday—Saturday after 9:00am Mass Pastoral Staff 718-428-2200 Miraculous Medal Novena: Rev. Thomas F. Brosnan, Pastor (x110) Mondays after 9:00am Mass Rev. Alexander U. Agbata, Parochial Vicar (X 109) Rev. Richard E. Long, Resident (x111) First Friday: Mr. Eugene R. Wohlfarth, Deacon (x107) Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and S. Kathleen Masterson RSM, Pastoral Associate Sacred Heart Novena after 9:00am Mass (718-224-5695) Benediction at 10:00am School Our Lady of Loretto Novena: Mrs. Mary-Anne Cooke, Principal 718-631-4804 First Saturday after 9:00am Mass Religious Education Confession Mrs. Georgette Lyons, Director 718-631-1307 Saturdays 3:30pm—4:30pm Music Ministry Baptism Ms. Vivian Wohlfarth, Director 718-343-3789 Designated Saturdays at 1:00pm. Call to inquire and register. Youth Ministry Mr. Brandon Morel 718-428-2200 (x106) Marriage Arrangements must be made six months prior to Parish Pastoral Council the wedding. Contact rectory for details. Mrs. Marianne Cooney, Facilitator Anointing/Communion for the Sick Parish Secretary Anointing of the seriously ill: call rectory. Ms. Catherine Sorge 718-428-2200 (x100) Communion for the homebound: call S. Kathleen. Parish Support Mrs. Toni Horun 718-428-2200 (x102) Rectory Office Hours—Daily 9:30am –12:30pm / 2—4pm / 5—8pm Sunday Mass Assistance Rev. Msgr. Richard Marchese Rev. John P. Maloney Fourth Sunday of Easter ~ May 7, 2017 MASS INTENTIONS PARISH WEEKLY CALENDAR Saturday, May 6th Sunday, May 7th 5:00 John & Helen O’Leary Girl Scout Cookie Sale after all masses (Helen O’Leary) Today—Church Lobby 9:30 Family Mass, Church Sunday, May 7th 7:00 ALANON, Parish Center 9:00 Craig Wieland (Alicia Wieland, Spouse) 11:00 Vincent Rocco Ungaro Monday, May 8th (Christopher Parisi) 2:45 Girl Scouts Troop 4022, Parish Center and Bunky Venice (Kuhnen Family) 12:30 Helen Furey (S. H Mother’s Club) Tuesday, May 9th and Brian O’Connor (Pat Farrell) 7:30 PPC Meeting, Rectory 5:00 Henry Tonry (Family) Wednesday, May 10th Monday, May 8th 2:45 Cub Scouts, Den 2, Parish Center 9:00 Kathleen & Joseph McMahon 3:50 Communion Rehearsal, Church (Capitulo & Leask Family) 7:30 Divine Mercy Mtg., Rectory 8:00 AA Meeting, Parish Center Tuesday, May 9th 9:00 John Meyer (Bassolino Family) Thursday, May 11th 10:00 Rosary Altar Meeting, Rectory Wednesday, May 10th 3:30 Parish Children’s Choir Rehearsal, 9:00 For the Parish School 7:30 Prayer Group, Church Thursday, May 11th 9:00 Thanksgiving to St. Jude Friday, May 12th and Carolyn McArdle (Edie Miozzi) 6:30 Cub Scouts, Den 3, Parish Center 7:00 Cub Scouts, Den 6, Cafeteria Friday, May 12th 8:00 Boy Scouts, Cafeteria 9:00 Anthony Miceli (Family) Saturday, May 13th Saturday, May 13th 9:20 Religious Education Class, School 9:00 Tony Davi (Family) 11:30 First Holy Communion, and Chui Family (Family) Church & Church Hall 5:00 Rose Cassara and Betty Granata (Shevlin Family) ST. MATTHEWS GUILD COUNTERS Sunday, May 14th Counting Team # 4 is scheduled to count on 9:00 Mother’s Day Novena May 14th 11:00 Mother’s Day Novena M. Nittolo, P. Domondon, R. Leonard & N. Schlesinger 12:30 Mother’s Day Novena 5:00 Mother’s Day Novena PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL CONTACT BOX − located in the church vestibule − An exchange of ideas enriches our parish community. Share your thoughts with us! authenticity. When I returned from my pilgrimage, I met a PASTORAL REFLECTIONS priest-friend to whom I remarked that you really see T.F. Brosnan everyone in Medjugorje; to which he replied: “Yeah, everyone except the Blessed Mother.” Regardless, the Quantum mechanics and Our Lady of Fatima: both going piety of the pilgrims is itself an inspiration. through my head at the same time, emblematic, perhaps, of the rift between science and faith; or, in a weird sort of If you’ve ever seen film or video of the seers in ecstasy way, two sides of the same coin. In a neat little book, (Garabandal was filmed from 1961-1965 and Medjugorje Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Carlo Rovelli relates has been filmed and videotaped to a great degree), you Werner Heisenberg’s take on a nascent quantum might be at a loss to simply explain it away as either hoax mechanics: “electrons,” he said, “do not always exist. or hypnosis. The ways by which the child-seers react to They only exist when someone watches them, or when what they claim to be an apparition are extraordinary: they are interacting with something else.” from simultaneous reflexive action to running backwards down a steep rocky hill with abandon; they are seemingly This coming Saturday (May 13TH) will mark the hundredth oblivious to any distraction or infliction of pain by the anniversary of the apparitions of the Blessed Mother to examiner. It would be an even greater act of faith to three children of Fatima, Portugal. Pope Francis will claim to believe that the children are somehow faking it. canonize two of the three child-seers this Saturday. Jacinta and Francisco Marto were cousins and only eight Saint Augustine had a rather modern take on miracles, and nine years old when they reported this extraordinary claiming that “miracles are not contrary to nature, but only experience. They would both die (as was prophesied by contrary to what we know about nature.” If that’s true, the the Virgin) in the influenza pandemic that swept the world natural and the supernatural are somehow intimately in 1919. Lucia, the third child-seer, would enter the related, like hand-in-glove realities. Maybe quantum convent and live into her late nineties. She will not be mechanics could someday explain a mysterious canonized this Saturday. appearance to one person but not another. Yet, to focus on the how of the apparition is to miss the point. It’s the There have been thousands of Marian apparitions why that really matters. reported through the centuries. Most, like those reported some forty years ago by Veronica Lueken right here in On May 5, 1917, eight days before the first apparition at Bayside, in St Robert’s Parish down the road, are Fatima, Pope Benedict XV publicly invoked the debunked rather quickly for the sheer absurdity of their assistance of the Mother of God to intercede on behalf of purported “messages.” Church disapproval doesn’t humanity to end the bloodshed and destruction of the amount to much, however. I remember back in the 1980s Great War – a war that would eventually claim 37 million living in a parish in Seoul, Korea. As the pastor and I lives. On May 13, 1981 Mehmet Ali Agca shot Pope John greeted parishioners coming out of Mass a woman Paul II in St Peter’s Square. The world would only find approached the pastor handing him some papers to out much later that the pope was very near death and not which he reacted rather dramatically demanding the expected to survive. He did, however, and attributed his woman leave the premises. Later at lunch I asked him survival to the intercession of Our Lady of Fatima on what the commotion was all about. He told me that the whose feastday he was shot. On May 13, 1982, John woman was trying to spread information about a Marian Paul II would travel to Fatima to give thanks to her apparition that was not true. “Where did the alleged intercession and to embed the bullet removed from his apparition take place,” I asked. “In New York,” he said. body into the crown that adorns the statue of Our Lady at “A place called Bayside.” Small world, I thought. Fatima. One wonders why the Virgin would choose to appear in the middle of nowhere, in a village named not I’ve been to a number of Marian shrines over the years, for any great Catholic saint but named in honor of including Fatima and Lourdes as well as Medjugorje and Mohammad’s daughter, Fatima – a vestige of the nearly Garabandal. Garabandal, a small village atop a mountain seven centuries of Islamic presence on the Iberian in northern Spain, was by far the most beautiful. When peninsula. Fulton Sheen would write that the Virgin we visited it was nearly deserted despite the fact it was chose Fatima because, through the Qur’an, Muslims August 15th, the Feast of the Assumption. A local told us venerate Mary as the virgin-mother of Jesus, thereby that people no longer come; they’re all going to establishing a point of harmony in which dialogue might Medjugorje, she said rather enviously. Everyone does take place. indeed seem to be going to Medjugorje. The Virgin is said to be appearing on a near daily basis since 1984. The word “apparition” itself connotes an almost pejorative The local bishop believes it to be a hoax.
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