Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time June 30, 2019 Bronx, New York I AM THE WAY AND THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE. HOLY MASS SCHEDULE RECTORY: 718-882-0710 Fax: 718-882-8876 833 Mace Avenue Bronx, NY 10467 Saturday: 9:00 a.m. (English) Monday - Friday - 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m. (Albanian), 7:00 p.m. (English) Saturday 10-2 p.m. - Closed Sundays and Holidays Sunday: 8:00 a.m. (Italian), 9:00 a.m. (Spanish - Auditorium) 9:15 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 12 noon (English), Eucharistic Adoration: Monday-Friday 9:30-12 noon, 12:00 p.m. (Creole - Chapel in Center), Thursday 6:00-7:00 p.m., Saturday 9:30 a.m.-12 noon & First Friday of the Month - All Night Adoration 8 p.m. 1:15 p.m. (Spanish) to 7 a.m. (Chapel in Center) Weekdays: 9:00 a.m. (English), Confession: Saturdays 3:00- 4:00 p.m. & 6:30-7:00 p.m. Thursdays: 7:00 p.m. (Spanish) Prayer for Independence Day Our Daily Eucharistic Adoration From the Opening Prayer of the Holy Mass of 4th of July Father of all nations and ages, we recall the day when our country claimed its place among the family of nations; for what has been achieved we give you thanks, for the work that still remains we ask your help, will be dedicated to the and as you have called us from many peoples to Fortnight for Freedom from be one nation, June 21st thru July 4th. grant that, under your providence, Please come and pray for religious our country may share your blessings freedom in our country. with all the peoples of the earth. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - JUNE 30, 2019 Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time June 30, 2019 TODAY’S READINGS Monday- July 1, 2019 - Weekday - St. Junipero Serra, First Reading — Priest Elisha left and 9:00 a.m. Gjoke Camaj & Gjelosh Camaj followed Elijah as his attendant (1 Kings Tuesday- July 2, 2019 - Weekday 19:16b, 19-21). 9:00 a.m. Gina Del Franco Psalm — You are my inheritance, O Wednesday- July 3, 2019 - St. Thomas, Apostle Lord (Psalm 16). 9:00 a.m. Antonio Mayan Second Reading — Beware that you are Thursday- July 4, 2019 - Weekday not consumed by one ** Only one mass at 9 a.m.** another (Galatians 9:00 a.m. Antonio C. Moschetta 5:1, 13-18). Gospel — Go and Friday- July 5, 2019 - Weekday - St. Anthony proclaim the kingdom of God (Luke 9:51-62). The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, Zaccaria, Priest; St. Elizabeth of Portugal International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. 9:00 a.m. Anna Mangano READINGS FOR THE WEEK Saturday- July 6, 2019 - Weekday - St. Maria Goretti, Virgin and Martyr Monday: Gn 18:16-33; Ps 103:1b-4, 8-11; Mt 8:18-22 Tuesday: Gn 19:15-29; Ps 26:2-3, 9-12; Mt 8:23-27 9:00 a.m. Precoli Juncaj Wednesday: Eph 2:19-22; Ps 117:1bc-2; Jn 20:24-29 5:30 p.m. Marie Pergjini Thursday: Gn 22:1b-19; Ps 115:1-6, 8-9; Mt 9:1-8; or, 7:00 p.m. Benjamin & Benito Mercado for Independence Day, any readings from the Mass “For the Country or a City,” Sunday- July 7, 2019 - Fourteenth Sunday in nos. 882-886, or “For Peace and Justice,” Ordinary Time nos. 887-891 8:00 a.m. Imelde Masini Friday: Gn 23:1-4, 19; 24:1-8, 62-67; Ps 106:1b-5; 9:00 a.m. Alida Grullon Mt 9:9-13 9:15 a.m. Joseph, Peter & Theresa Peragino Saturday: Gn 27:1-5, 15-29; Ps 135:1b-6; Mt 9:14-17 10:30 a.m. Anna & Emilia DiFlora Sunday: Is 66:10-14c; Ps 66:1-7, 16, 20; 12:00 p.m. For all Parishioners of St. Lucy’s Parish Gal 6:14-18; Lk 10:1-12, 17-20 [10:1-9] 12:00 p.m. Creole Mass - Center Chapel 1:15 p.m. Julio Jose Matias, Jr. Best Wishes & Blessings to Majkol & Suzana Delevic We welcome Married on June 29, 2019 Edwin Lebron, Chanel Martinez, Marliz Meza & North Figueroa In Memoriam Baptized on June 16, 2019 The candle in honor of the Blessed Mother Marva Gurray burns this week in loving memory of Baptized on June 22, 2019 Mildred, Anthony, Phil & Brandy Capano Karim Luna Gonzalez, Bryce Sanchez Requested by Roseann Cirelli & Manuel Solano Baptized on June 23, 2019 The Sanctuary Lamp by the tabernacle burns this week in loving memory of into the Roman Catholic Church and Gina Del Franco our Parish community of St. Lucy Requested by Anna Failla Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time June 30, 2019 Message from Father Pergjini: On June 29th was the solemnity of the Saints Peter and Paul. Every year on their feast I think of my experience in Rome where the two apostles were martyred. Many years ago, a few years before my ordination, a seminarian and I were asked to go to Rome for the summer working in the library of the North American College. North American College is located on the beautiful Gianicolo Hill, very near Vatican City. It is a very big building surrounded by a beautiful garden. From our windows we could see the majestic dome of the basilica of Saint Peter. The North American College prepares seminarians who come from every diocese of the United States for ordination to the priesthood. At that time the rector of the North American College was Msgr. Timothy Michael Dolan, who after many years became our present Archbishop and Cardinal. He was very gracious to provide room and board and also to pay us for our humble work in the library. We were very grateful to him for his generosity. We never thought that one day he would be our Archbishop. Today after many years I recall with joy those hot but happy and fruitful months working in the library and visiting the ancient city of Rome. During that free time I visited many famous churches and ancient Roman monuments, and one of them, not known by tourists, was the small church "Quo vadis Domine." As a teenager I was touched and moved reading a classical and historical novel "Quo vadis Domine" written by Henryk Sienkiewicz who won the Noble prize for literature last century. I always hoped that one day I could have the blessing to go to Rome and visit the little church with its unique story that deeply touched me. There I was on one of those humid and hot Roman summer days visiting the church "Domine Quo vadis” which means "Lord where are you going?" The church is located outside the city of Rome, on the Appian Way. We had to take two buses and it took a few hours to get there. As seminarians we could never afford to rent a car and visit the historical place. The actual name of the church is Santa Maria in Palmis - Holy Mary among the Soles of the Feet. It is very small church with its plain classical front attached to a brick office building on one side and a limestone on the other. That day there was a flood inside the church. They were cleaning and no one could get in. We insisted begging them to let us in. Final- ly, the couple who were very tired allowed us to visit the church. It was not much to see inside, a very simple and plain church. For me it was a very unique place and more important than the famous and well known Roman places and monuments. I was very young when I read this clas- sical historical novel. In my mind was a clear image of what happened two thousand years ago. In that empty church I pictured Saint Peter, who was troubled in his heart, walking on the same road that I was walking. He was trying to escape the wicked emperor Nero who was seeking his life. And it was precisely where the little and plain church stands today, that Peter had the vision of Christ walking toward him. He immediately knelt when Christ was approaching Peter on the dusty road. Saint Peter on his knees asked: "Domine quo vadis?" which means "Lord, where are you going?" And Christ looking with love and mercy on the one whom he loved, the one who denied him three times before the crucifixion, and now Peter was trying to escape the cross. One could imagine very well that unique moment: Peter kneeling and Christ looking at him and answering the question of Peter: "I am going to Rome to be crucified for the second time.” The vision was gone. Saint Peter understood very well that he must return to the city facing his death. He knew that this time he could not escape the cross. He knew his sentence: shedding his blood on the cross upside down on the Vatican hill. In the silence of that empty church that question of Saint Peter moved me in my early teens reading the book, and moved me more being in that place where the vision took place. The power of Christ in the eyes of Saint Peter who on his knees was looking at him would have been powerful.