The Most Holy Body & Blood of Christ The one who feeds on this bread shall live forever Church of St. John the Evangelist 221 East Lake Boulevard Mahopac, New York 10541 www.sjtemahopac.org 845-628-2006 ©2012 Bon Venture Services, LLC THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST– June 18, 2017 MASS INTENTIONS MEMORIAL OFFERINGS Bread & Wine Paul Derpich Saturday 17 4:00 PM Vincent Graviano 5:30 PM Josephine Doucette Sanctuary Lamp Ernie Mormile 7:00 PM Susana Diaz de Perez Sunday 18 7:30 AM People of the Parish Altar Candles Barbara Watson 8:45 AM Joseph Scanlon 10:45 AM Robert Chipman 12:30 PM Thanksgiving to St. Anthony Altar Flowers James F. McInerney 5:30 PM Erich Bayer Monday 19 St. Romuald 9:00 AM Deceased members of the Caruso, Memorialize your loved ones Binghieri & Piscatelli Fanilies Memorialize your loved ones by picking up a Mass 12:00 PM Christian Kristensen card or other Mass memorial in the Parish House or Tuesday 20 at the Welcome Desk. 9:00 AM Benno Franfurter Noon Preciosa, Joaquim & Christina Reis Pray for our Deceased Wednesday 21 St. Aloysius Gonzaga 9:00 AM Joseph & Julio DiBiase Frances Spor Mariejo O’Halloran Noon Nicola & Maria Santa Maria Thursday 22 Sts. Paulinus, John Fisher & Thomas More Pray for our Sick 9:00 AM June Hillery Lisa Giordano Connie Schievi Noon Brian Garvey Lena Young Edna Heidt Friday 23 The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Christopher Rice, Jr. Maureen Franze 9:00 AM Robert Vrana Daniel Carillo Kelsey Berger Noon Rose Troani Gisela Penge Ron Drumheller 8:00 PM Holy Hour in honor of the Sacred Joyce Baione Edda Cerbini Heart of Jesus (Hispanic Community) Veronica Croteau Jill Sheehan Saturday 24 Billy Hughes Sr. Mary Judith 9:00 AM Rosa Avallone Ann Baker Bob Perrillo Darvello Galvez Patrick Hamill 4:00 PM Deceased members of the Veschi & Jean Smith Patty Fahy Gaidon Families Jerry O’Shea Fran Altomare 5:30 PM Charles Brunke Damien Frankfurter Irene Silviotti 7:00 PM La Paz de la America Central Ana Serrano Sunday 25 7:30 AM Grace Tadler 8:45 AM People of the Parish 10:45AM Frances Barbato Pray for our Military 12:30 PM Carmela Gallace Joseph Monaco – Air Force - Turkey 5:30 PM Charles Frederick Browning Matthew Griffen – USN Flowers Needed Email [email protected] to add a name If you would like to donate flowers, please drop them off on the porch of the Parish House. Thank you to this list. THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST– June 18, 2017 Readings for the Week The Most Holy Body & Blood of Christ Did you know? (Corpus Christi) Sunday What did St. Joseph say? Dt 8:2-3, 14b-16a; 1 Cor 10:16-17; Jn 6:51-58 Monday 2 Cor 6:1-10; Mt 5:38-42 Tuesday 2 Cor 8:1-9; Mt 5:43-48 Wednesday 2 Cor 9:6-11; Mt 6:1-6, 16-18 Thursday 2 Cor 11:1-11; Mt 6:7-15 Friday Interesting fact – there are no quotes from St. Joseph. You Dt 7:6-11; 1 Jn 4:7-16; Mt 11:25-30 would think as the earthly father of Jesus that Joseph would get a few speaking parts, but nowhere in the Bible does Saturday Joseph actually speak. The longest description that we get of Vigil: Jer 1:4-10; 1 Pt 1:8-12; Lk 1:5-17 him is when he is trying to decide what to do once Mary Day: Is 49:1-6; Acts 13:22-26; Lk 1:57-66, 80 tells him that she is pregnant. The Bible tells us that Joseph was a “righteous man” (what better praise could you want?!) and does exactly as the angel tells him to do, which is to still take Mary into his home and help her to raise Jesus. What Father’s Day Prayer can we learn from Joseph’s silence? Joseph is the epitome of a man of God – he follows His will without protest. When God our Father, we give you thanks and praise for the angel says to name the baby Jesus, he does so. When he fathers young and old. We pray for young fathers, newly has to go to Bethlehem to be counted, he goes, even though embracing their vocation; may they find courage and Mary is very pregnant. When Mary has to find a place to perseverance to balance work, family, and faith in joy have Jesus, he doesn’t rest until it is done. When he is told and sacrifice. We pray for men who are not fathers but by the angel to flee to Egypt, he gets up right then and does still mentor and guide us with fatherly love and it. He doesn’t speak in the Bible because he doesn’t need to. advice, and we remember those fathers, grandfathers, He trusts so fully in God that he doesn’t feel the need to and great-grandfathers who are no longer with us but argue his point or grapple with God’s plan, trying to reason who live forever in our memory and nourish us with their Him into a different path. He instead simply trusts, love. something that sounds so easy and simplistic but really takes St. Joseph, please guide all of these men in a true man to do – to lay down his own ideas and rely their fatherly vocations, and bless them as a role model entirely on God’s. On Father’s Day, we pray that all fathers, in their fatherhood. Amen and all men, can be “righteous” and trust in God’s will for their lives so that they can in turn be the faith leaders in their families, taking the initiative to guide their families on the Faith Formation News path that leads to God. Registration for the 2017-18 Faith Formation year will be closing on June 29th. To register before the June Church Support 29th deadline, please stop by the Parish House Monday through Thursday between 9-1pm. Regular (June 11th) $13,321 Any new, incoming families may register throughout Please consider giving electronically the summer by appointment and we will need a copy of www.parishpay.com the child’s baptismal certificate to register. THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST– June 18, 2017 The Feast of Corpus Christi The Feast of Corpus Christi (Latin for Body of Christ) is a Latin Rite liturgical solemnity celebrating the reality of the Body and blood of Jesus Christ Son of God in the Eucharist. It emphasizes the joy of the institution of the Eucharist. The latter had previously been observed only on Maundy Thursday, in the somber atmosphere leading to Good Friday. The feast is liturgically celebrated on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday or, "where the Solemnity of The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ is not a holy day of obligation, it is assigned to the Sunday after the Most Holy Trinity as its proper day".[1] It was reported in 2017, however, that Pope Francis had moved the feast from Thursday to the following Sunday, [2][3] when it is celebrated in Italy. At the end of Holy Mass, there is often a procession of the Blessed Sacrament, generally displayed in a monstrance. The procession is followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. A notable Eucharistic procession is that presided over by the Pope each year in Rome, where it begins at the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran and passes to the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, where it concludes with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. The celebration of the feast was suppressed in Protestant churches during the Reformation, and today most Protestant denominations do not recognize the feast.[4] The Church of England abolished it in 1548 as the English Reformation progressed, but later reintroduced it. St. Aloysius Gonzasa St. Aloysius was born in Castiglione, Italy. The first words St. Aloysius spoke were the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. He was destined for the military by his father (who was in service to Philip II), but by the age of 9 Aloysius had decided on a religious life, and made a vow of perpetual virginity. To safeguard himself from possible temptation, he would keep his eyes persistently downcast in the presence of women. St. Charles Borromeo gave him his first Holy Communion. A kidney disease prevented St. Aloysius from a full social life for a while, so he spent his time in prayer and reading the lives of the saints. Although he was appointed a page in Spain, St. Aloysius kept up his many devotions and austerities, and was quite resolved to become a Jesuit. His family eventually moved back to Italy, where he taught catechism to the poor. When he was 18, he joined the Jesuits, after finally breaking down his father, who had refused his entrance into the order. He served in a hospital during the plague of 1587 in Milan, and died from it at the age of 23, after receiving the last rites from St. Robert Bellarmine. The last word he spoke was the Holy Name of Jesus. St. Robert wrote the Life of St. Aloysius. THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST– June 18, 2017 2018 MASS & MEMORIAL REQUESTS Mass and Memorial requests for 2018 will begin Monday, June 19th by using this form. Please fill out the form and drop it at the Welcome Desk or Parish House. Payment should be included with the form.