381 North Highland Avenue Ossining, NY 10562 Parish Office: (914) 9410067 Fax: (914) 9440828 JULY 11, 2021 REV. BRIAN T. McSWEENEY, PASTOR REV. JEANPIERRE SEON, PAROCHIAL VICAR REV. MATTHEW UGWOJI, IN RESIDENCE DEACON STEVEN A. DeMARTINO DEACON CLIFF C. CALANNI DEACON JOHN A. BARBERA PARISH TRUSTEES: Oscar Montes and Carole Simonetti PARISH OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR: Joan Pires DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS: Deacon John A. Barbera MUSICAL DIRECTOR & ORGANIST: Bozena Romano (914) 7393527 SCHOOL PRINCIPAL: Sr. Mary Elizabeth Donoghue, O.P. (914) 9413849 RELIGIOUS EDUCATION COORDINATOR: Patricia Barbera (914) 9416663 PARISH SUPERINTENDENT: Mario Gutierrez ST. AUGUSTINE CEMETERY: (914) 9416711 SENIOR CENTER COORDINATORS: Nancy Knight and Janice Paganelli (914) 9232268 YOUTH GROUP COORDINATOR: Tony Corda (914) 3731548 CYO BASKETBALL COORDINATORS: Tammy Alves (914) 7294093 & Kara Calandrello MASSES ADŽǕNJǗNJǕNJdžǔ CǐǎǎNJǕǕdždžǔ SATURDAY: 8:30AM, 5:00PM Adult Choir Advocates for People with SUNDAY: 8:00AM, 10:00AM Altar Servers Special Needs 12:00 NOON, 6:00PM Children’s Choir Bereavement Support Group MONDAY FRIDAY: 6:30AM, 8:30AM CYO Cemetery Extraordinary Ministers of Festival Planning HOLY DAYS: as announced Holy Communion Finance CONFESSIONS: Saturdays: 9:0010:00AM Knights of Columbus Home and School also by appointment Lectors Parish Council ADORATION: Thursday 9:00AM to 6:30PM Legion of Mary Parish Social Ministry BAPTISMS: Call the Parish Office Scouts Boys/Girls St. Augustine Society for an appointment Senior Center St. Joseph’s Men’s Group Ushers St. Vincent de Paul Society MARRIAGES: Please arrange six months Youth Group in advance. The local conference Board of the St. Vincent de Paul Society meets regularly, with prayer and spiritual reflection, at the Parish Office, where volunteers personally serve local persons in desperate circumstances by offering prayer, personal attention and financial help. Shortterm gifts can be offered to assist with rent, utilities, food and clothing. If you are in need, please call Deacon Steven DeMartino at (914) 3303727 to make a confidential request. Website: StAugNY.org ST. AUGUSTINE CHURCH, OSSINING, NEW YORK MONDAY, JULY 12: 6:30 AM Linda McKenna/Anthony DiLello 8:30 AM Rodulfo Paracuelles/S. I. for Rosemary Angiolino TUESDAY, JULY 13: It’s Time to Get Back to Mass! 6:30 AM S. I. for Mary Ellen Hamor 8:30 AM Harry C. Fadde, Jr./Carol Zilliox (Excerpts from Cardinal Dolan’s article in Catholic New York of April 7, 2021) WEDNESDAY, JULY 14 (St. Kateri Tekakwitha): 6:30 AM Donato Pascale God told us, “Remember to keep holy the Lord’s Day!”For two 8:30 AM S. I. for Paulette Sirakos millennia, we Catholics have believed that we best keep Holy the Lord’s Day by Sunday Mass!Yes, for the last year, we have THURSDAY, JULY 15 (St. Bonaventure): prudently been able to decide that the emergency health crisis can 6:30 AM Irene Lake & John Corda allow us to excuse ourselves from that Godgiven obligation.Our 8:30 AM Albert Rivera elderly, or people with compromising conditions that weaken FRIDAY, JULY 16: them can still excuse themselves, as has always been the case.But 6:30 AM S. I. for the Barbera Family for the majority of usNare we going to restaurants? To the kids’ 8:30 AM Lorraine Babak/Carmine Mazzella soccer and little league games? To the store? To the beauty SATURDAY, JULY 17: parlor? To gatherings with family and friends?Well, then, it’s 8:30 AM Louis Laccetti time to get backto Mass. 5:00 PM John & Mary Volker/Edmund Sinnott No more gradual about it! It’s time to get back to Sunday Mass! SUNDAY, JULY 18: We recognize Jesus at Mass and Holy Communion. We enter 8:00 AM Mary Ellen Wright/Jerome (Jerry) McSorley again the eternal, infinite mystery of His death on the cross and 10:00 AM For all of our Parishioners & Benefactors resurrection from the dead. Every Sunday Mass is a renewal of William Lenzi the Last Supper, Good Friday, and Easter.It’s time to get back to 12:00 Noon Wayne Roberts/Robert Connolly Sunday Mass! 6:00 PM Linda McKenna Don’t go if you’re sick, elderly or your health is shaky, obviously! Sanctuary Lamp Memorials Be grateful good folks carefully sanitize the Church after each Mass.But, for God’s sake, get back to Sunday Mass!We need The Sanctuary Lamp will burn the week medicine!We need food for the soul!We need vaccination from of July 12 ~ 18 sin, Satan and eternal death!We need herd immunity as sheep in Loving Memory of under Christ our Good Shepherd. Thomas E. Hales. All this we behold at Mass!How can we stay away? (After this weekend we will only livestream the 10:00 am Holy Mass on Sunday) Last week’s Collection $ 11,167 Average Weekly Collection from WeShare Users $ 7,558 Last week’s Total Weekly Collection $ 18,725 We joyfully announce the forthcoming cel- ebration of the Sacrament of Marriage and Support the 2021 Appeal at Saint Augustine. ask for a remembrance in your prayers for: Help us to reach our goal by giving today at cardinalsappeal.org/donate. Christopher Talarico & Tracy Bratt ~ III Your Cardinal’s Appeal contributions are currently allowing 27 Daniel Rice & Nicole Zavarella ~ III men to attend Saint Joseph’s Seminary. Seminary, like any college, costs money M but seminarians are not eligible for the same types of financial aid that students in typical colleges are. The Christian Community of St. Au- Your dollars enable them to become the priests who will lead our gustine Parish would like to welcome parishes into the future. If you have not yet made your pledge to with great joy those reborn by water the Cardinal’s Appeal, please make your commitment today. and the Holy Spirit: Remember, you can pledge your gift now and make payments in the coming months. To date, $125,905 has been received from Wesley Russell Mastrocola 193 donors. Please join them in order for us to meet our goal May God who has begun this great work in you bring it to of $178,500. completion in the Kingdom of Heaven. FIFTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Father Joseph Verbis Lafleur SAVE THE HYDE AMENDMENT! Fr. Lafleur was born on January 24, 1912 in Ville Platte, Louisiana. In U.S. politics, the Hyde Amendment is a legislative provision barring During his summer breaks from Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, the use of federal funds to pay for abortions. Before the Hyde Lafleur would spend his time teaching catechism to first communicants. Amendment took effect in 1980, an estimated 300,000 abortions were He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Lafayette April 2, 1938 and performed annually using taxpayer funds. after becoming a member of the Knights of Columbus, he requested to be This week, the House Committee on Appropriations will markup the a military chaplain, just before the outbreak of the Second World War. Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) and State, Foreign Initially, his request was denied, but when the priest asked a second time, Operations (SFOPs) appropriations bills which currently exclude it was granted. Fr. Lafleur wished to accompany the drafted men who longstanding bipartisan policies that prevent taxpayer dollars from being had no choice but to fight in the war. He was deployed to the spent on elective abortions. Three decadesold provisions which were Philippines, and spent two and a half years as a prisoner of war of the eliminated from these appropriations bills prevent taxpayer funds from Japanese. “Fr. Lafleur did a lot of work in the prison camps as well,” said being used to pay for abortions in the District of Columbia, through nephew Richard Lafleur. “He gave his own food when they were starving foreign assistance, and for federal employee health plans that cover to death.” Men in the camps with Fr. Lafleur testified that his character abortions. Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, chairman of the U.S. caused the conversion of about 200 men to Catholicism while in the Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on ProLife prison camp. Fr. Lafleur earned the Distinguished Service Cross for Activities and Bishop David J. Malloy, chairman of the USCCB Valor, and he ended up on a ship with other Japanese POWs that was Committee on International Justice and Peace, issued a statement torpedoed, unwittingly, by an American submarine that did not realize expressing deep concerns, saying: the ship was carrying POWs. He was last seen Sept. 7, 1944 helping men out of the hull of the sinking ship, for which he posthumously earned a “The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, and a second Distinguished Service should not eliminate the longstanding, bipartisan provisions that prevent Cross for his acts as a POW. Fr. Lafleur’s body was never found, but a taxpayer funding of abortions… I call on the Appropriations Committee shrine and monument exist at St. Landry Catholic Church, where he grew and all members of Congress to protect taxpayers from having to pay for up. the evil of abortion, and to instead use our tax dollars for the common good and welfare of all.” Brother Marinus (Leonard) LaRue Over the next few weeks, the House Appropriations Committee will be Born January 14, 1914, LaRue attended the Pennsylvania Nautical voting on several other appropriations bills, including the Labor/Health School. After his graduation in 1934, he served as the U.S. Merchant and Human Services bill that is expected to eliminate the Hyde Marine Captain of the SS Meredith Victory during the Korean War. Amendment. Without the Hyde Amendment and Hyderelated LaRue was tasked with delivering military supplies to a port in policies,billionsof taxpayer dollars could be used to pay for abortion in Hungnam, North Korea, where hundreds of thousands of soldiers and the United States and throughout the world.