The Roman Catholic Communities of Northwestern Allegany County Our Lady of the Angels St. Patrick’s St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church of Roman Catholic Church of Roman Catholic Church of Cuba, NY Fillmore, NY Belfast, NY with Ministry to with with Cuba Memorial Hospital Catholic Campus Ministry St. Mark’s Oratory Cuba, New York to Houghton College Rushford, New York Pastor SATURDAY VIGIL MASSES WEEKDAY MASSES Rev. Dennis J. J. Mancuso 4:00 pm - Our Lady of the Angels Mondays: 10:15 am [email protected] 5:30 pm - St. Patrick, Belfast Absolute of Houghton LLC 7:00 pm - St. Mark’s Oratory Regular Assisting Clergy Tuesdays: 8:30 am 2014 Summer Season: May 24 - Sept. 13 St. Patrick, Fillmore Rev. Msgr. Vincent Becker SUNDAY MASSES Wednesdays: FR.’s DAY OFF Campus Ministers 8:30 am - Our Lady of the Angels Debbie & Dan Fitzgerald Thursdays: 9:00 am 10:00 am - St. Patrick, Belfast Our Lady of the Angels [email protected] 11:30 am - St. Patrick, Fillmore Fridays: 8:30 am St. Patrick, Belfast Administrative Assistant 2:30 pm Cuba Mem. Hospital Mrs. Lori Richter HOLY DAYS [email protected] See Inside of Bulletin SATURDAY CONFESSIONS 1:30 pm - St. Patrick, Fillmore WEB SITES PARISH OFFICE HOURS stpatsbelfastfillmore.org 2:30 pm - St. Patrick, Belfast Tuesdays & Wednesdays 3:30 pm - Our Lady of the Angels olacuba.org Confessions may be cancelled on Saturday on 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM account of Weddings and other events - see the Tri-Parish Calendar of Events page for info. Confessions are available upon Request. SOUTHERN RECTORY NORTHERN RECTORY CATECHETICAL CENTER 50 South St. TRI-PARISH OFFICE 18 E. Hughes St. Belfast, NY Cuba, NY 14727-1425 109 W. Main St. — PO Box 198 PHONE: (585) 968-2885 Fillmore, NY 14735-0198 PHONE: (585) 567-2282 ST. MARK’S ORATORY FAX: (585) 567-4172 9103 School St. Rushford, NY Tri-Parish Calendar of Events Sun. July 20: Church picnic, Fillmore, immediately following 11:30 am Mass, about 12:30 pm Fri. Aug. 1: First Friday Adoration and Mass, Belfast, 8:30 am-Mass followed by exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, 10:00 am-Devotions and Confessions, 11:00 am-Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament Sat. Aug. 2: Our Lady of the Angels Feast Day: Confessions at 9:00 am; Mass with prayers For the Plenary Indulgence at 10:00 am Sun. Aug. 10: Church picnic, Cuba, Mass at 10:30 am followed by the parish picnic Mon. Aug. 11: Finance Council meeting, Fillmore, 6:00 pm followed by Parish Council meeting, at 7:00 pm Pope Francis appeals for peace in the Holy Land VATICAN RADIO: JULY 14, 2014 — Pope Francis on Sunday asked for prayers for peace in the Holy Land. Speaking after the Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope described his appeal as ―heartfelt‖ and said we must all continue to pray insistently for peace in the Holy Land in the light of the tragic events of the past days. Fresh in mind – the Pope said - is the memory of the Vatican encounter on June 8th between the Patriarch Bartholomew, President Peres and President Abbas, during which an invocation for the gift of peace was pronounced and the call to break the cycle of hatred and violence was reflected upon. Some may think – he continued - that that encounter took place in vain. But no! Prayer helps us – Francis said – not to be conquered by evil or to resign ourselves that violence and hatred may prevail over dialogue and reconciliation. And Pope Francis exhorted all interested parties and all those with political responsibility, both on a local and on an international level not to spare their prayers, and not to spare all their efforts to achieve the cessation of all hostilities and the desired peace for the good of all. And then the Pope invited everyone, first in silence, and then vocally, to join him in prayer: “Lord help us! Give us your peace, teach us peace, guide us towards peace. Open our eyes and our hearts and give us the courage to say: “never again war!”: with war all is destroyed! Give us the courage to perform concrete gestures to build peace. Make us available to listen to the cries of our fellow citizens who ask us to transform our arms into instruments of peace, our fears into trust, our tension into forgiveness. Amen”. Pope Francis’ appeal followed his weekly Angelus Prayer with the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square. After having greeted those present, he reflected on the reading of the day according to which Jesus preached to great crowds along the shores of the lake of Galilee and spoke to them in parables of the sower who sowed his seed on different grounds where it did not thrive. But some seed fell on rich soil and produced fruit. A well-known parable that speaks to us today – the Pope said – as it did to those who listened to Jesus 2000 years ago. It reminds us – he explained – that we are ground upon which the Lord tirelessly sows the seed of his Word and his love. And he reminded us that we too are sowers and we must ask ourselves what kind of seed falls from our hearts and from our lips? Our words – Pope Francis said – can do good, but they can also do evil; they can heal and they can hurt; they can encourage and they can depress. The Pope concluded his reflection pointing out that Our Lady teaches us, with her example, to receive the Word, to guard it and to make it yield fruit. TRI-PARISH DIRECTORY RELIGIOUS EDUCATION BELFAST: Rose Fleming 585-610-0649 CUBA: Sue Scott 585-968-2233 FILLMORE: Jennifer Austin 716-713-3204 CAMPUS MINISTRY (Houghton College) Debbie & Dan Fitzgerald 352-672-3143 352-672-3158 COORDINATORS OF MINISTRY TO THE HOMEBOUND BELFAST: Bill Heaney 585-365-2998 RUSHFORD: Carole McGlynn 585-567-2585 CUBA: Kathryn Plants 585-968-1843 FILLMORE: Jim Mowers 585-567-2598 FRIENDSHIP: Gary Carr 585-973-2709 HALL USAGE & RENTAL BELFAST: Mary Jelleson 585-365-2615 CUBA: Donna Falandys [email protected] FILLMORE: Call Parish Office 585-567-2282 PARISH COUNCIL PRESIDENTS BELFAST: Joan Kemp CUBA: Aileen Sirianni FILLMORE: Jennifer Austin PARISH TRUSTEES Bishop / President / Trustee Most Rev. Richard J. Malone Vicar General / Vice-President / Trustee Rev. Msgr. David S. Slubecky Pastor / Secretary-Treasurer / Trustee Rev. Dennis J. J. Mancuso BELFAST: Jacque Morton, Lay Trustee Richard Hull, Jr., Lay Trustee CUBA: Michael McCaffrey, Lay Trustee David Crowley, Lay Trustee FILLMORE: Daniel Richter, Lay Trustee Christopher Austin, Lay Trustee SACRAMENTAL MATTERS BAPTISM: Contact Fr. Dennis to schedule. LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION: Letters of July 22 Recommendation to be sponsors for the Sacraments of Baptism or Confirmation are issued by Fr. Dennis to practicing fully initiated St. Mary Magdalene Catholics who are not in violation of the Marriage Laws of the Church and who have attended to the religious education of their own children. Requests for Letters of Recommendation are to Please pray for the following folks… be made to Fr. Dennis. Please allow one week for processing. Mary Manko, Denny Chamberlain, Cari MARRIAGE: Couples seeking to be married are to contact Fr. Lynn Gawal, Charlotte Banish, Jacob Dennis at least six months prior to the proposed date of the Wedding. Austin, Anna Gierke, June Ford, Elizabeth Richter, Judy Barrett, Virginia ANOINTING OF THE SICK: Please notify Fr. Dennis prior to surgery or when a loved is put in the hospital so that he Fraschetti, Alice Moore, Patricia Pettit, might administer the Anointing of the Sick. Father is always Harry Koba, Nancy Sortore, Rosemary happy to make communion calls to those who are Jones, Pearl Harris, Lawrence homebound. Robertson, Lilly Milliman, Shirley SACRAMENTAL RECORDS: Requests for Certificates of Mancuso, Lisa Clark, Julie Tavernier DiSanto, Sacramental Records are to be made by mail or by email to [email protected]. Please allow two weeks for Penny Rubino, Steve Whalen, Collette Riordan, processing. All records are stored in a fire-proof safe in Father’s Kate Plants, and Jeffery Marks. Fillmore Office. NORTHWEST ALLEGANY COUNTY MASS SCHEDULE July 19 - 27, 2014 Day / Time Place Priest Intention Requested By Date Sat. 4:00 pm CUBA DM Special intentions of Bertha Dwyer Sharon and Dan Bushnell 7/19 5:30 pm BELFAST DM Dr. Tito Mena Almeida His sister, Cecy Curcio Birthday Remembrance 7:00 pm RUSHFORD DM David Damon His mother Elaine Damon and Birthday Remembrance brothers Darrel, Bob and Dan Sun. 8:30 am CUBA DM Julianne Doyle Bentley Her parents 7/20 10 am BELFAST VB Paul Fleming Marion Fleming Anniversary Remembrance 11:30 am FILLMORE VB Mr. and Mrs. Hank Miller Helen and Pauline Powers Mon. 10:15 am Absolute of DM Gillis Mancuso Patricia Burdick 7/21 Houghton Tues 8:30 am FILLMORE DM Alice Adamczyk Arthur Adamczyk 7/22 Thurs. 9:00 am CUBA DM Deceased members of the Ken Poe 7/24 Poe and Learn families Fri. 8:30 am BELFAST DM Gillis Mancuso Kathy Garrison 7/25 2:30 pm Cuba Mem. DM Lloyd Potter Tom and Marlee Talbett Hospital Sat. 4:00 pm CUBA DM Grayce and Isadore Pifher Joel and Virginia Scime 7/26 and family 5:30 pm BELFAST JC Beatriz Orozco de Vega Her daughter, Cecy Curcio In Loving Memory Birthday Remembrance 7:00 pm RUSHFORD JC William J. Stewart Sun. 8:30 am CUBA DM Ray Kamery Janice Rinker 7/27 10 am BELFAST DM Hazel and Earl Baker and Marion Fleming Mardy Feldbauer 11:30 am FILLMORE DM Ted Makowski LaRue, Barb and family Cardinal Parolin in Mexico to tackle migration issues VATICAN RADIO—JULY 14, 2014: The Vatican’s Secretary of State is in Mexico to discuss issues related to emigration, ―A huge challenge – ―he says – which is currently facing the entire human family‖.