Founded 1866 The Shrine and Parish Church of the Holy Innocents “The Little Catholic Church Around the Corner” at the crossroads of the world 128 West 37th St. (Just West of Broadway) New York City 10018 Schedule Rev. Fr. James L. P. Miara, M. Div., Pastor Perpetual Novenas Rev. Fr. Louis Van Thanh, Senior Priest Weekdays following the 7:30 a.m. and 12:15 & 1:15 p.m. Rev. Fr. Oliver Chanama, In Residence Masses and at 5:50 p.m. and on Saturday following the 12 Rev. Fr. Daniel Sabatos, Visiting Celebrant noon and 1:00 p.m. Masses. Tel: (212) 279-5861/5862 Monday: Miraculous Medal Tuesday: St. Anthony and St. Anne www.shrineofholyinnocents.org Wednesday: Our Lady of Perpetual Help and St. Joseph Thursday: Infant of Prague, St. Rita and St. Therese Friday: “The Return Crucifix” and the Passion Holy Sacrifice of the Mass Saturday: Our Lady of Lourdes and Our Lady of Fatima Weekdays: 7:00 & 7:30 a.m.; Sunday: Holy Innocents (at Vespers) 8:00 a.m. (Tridentine Latin only during Lent) 12:15 & 1:15 p.m. Devotions and 6:00 p.m. (Tridentine Latin) Vespers and Benediction: Saturday: 12 noon and 1:00 p.m. (Tridentine Latin) Sunday at 2:30 p.m. (Tridentine Latin) and 4:00 p.m. Vigil/Shopper’s Mass Holy Rosary: Weekdays at 11:55 a.m. and 5:20 p.m. Saturday at 12:35 p.m. Sunday: 9:00 a.m. (Tridentine Low Mass), Sunday at 2:00 p.m. 10:30 a.m. (Tridentine High Mass), Divine Mercy Chaplet: Weekdays at 3:00 p.m. 12:30 p.m. Stations of the Cross (during Lent): Holy Days of Obligation: Fridays at 12:45 p.m. Vigil at 5:15 p.m. and after 6:00 p.m. Mass 7:00 & 7:30 a.m.; All-Night Vigil: 8:00 a.m. (Tridentine Latin); 11:15 a.m.; First Friday of the month from 7:00 p.m.- 12:15, 1:15 & 5:15 p.m.; Saturday 5:00 a.m. Mass (Tridentine Latin) 6:00 p.m. (Tridentine Latin High Mass) First Saturday Devotions: Confessions Rosary, 15 minute meditation, prayers & Benediction following 1:00 p.m. Mass Weekdays: 7:30-8:30 a.m.; 12 noon-1:30 p.m.; 5:15-5:35 p.m. 2000 Hail Marys: Second Saturday of the month Saturday: 12 noon-1:00 p.m. and 3:15-3:45 p.m. from 6:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Sunday: 9:45-10:30 a.m. and 12 noon-12:30 p.m. Church Hours And anytime upon request or by appointment Monday-Friday: 6:30 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. Saturday: 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Exposition Sunday: 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. of the Most Blessed Sacrament Parish Office/Gift Shop Hours Weekdays from 2:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m. Benediction Monday-Friday: 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Saturday: 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Sunday: 9:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. LATIN TRIDENTINE MASS CORNER Week of March 4, 2018 Calendar Mass Intentions March 4 - 3rd Sunday of Lent THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT 1st Class SATURDAY, MARCH 3 March 5 - Feria of Lent rd 3 Class - Low Mass 04:00 - Rev. Fr. James L. P. Miara (L) March 6 - Feria of Lent with Commemoration of SUNDAY, MARCH 4 Ss. Perpetua & Felicity 9:00 - Veronica Obmaces (L) 3rd Class - Low Mass 10:30 - Janet Sanchez Reyes - Gregorian (21) 12:30 - People of the Parish March 7 - Feria of Lent with Commemoration of St. Thomas Aquinas MONDAY, MARCH 5 - LENTEN WEEKDAY 3rd Class - Low Mass 07:00 - Anthony Nespole (d) March 8 - Feria of Lent with Commemoration of 07:30 - Catherine Nespole (d) St. John of God 08:00 - In honor of the Lord suffering in Gethsemane 3rd Class - Low Mass 12:15 - Families in the Book of Life 01:15 - In Thanksgiving March 9 - Feria of Lent with Commemoration of 06:00 - Janet Sanchez Reyes - Gregorian (22) St. Frances of Rome 3rd Class - Low Mass TUESDAY, MARCH 6 - LENTEN WEEKDAY 07:00 - St. Anthony March 10 - Feria of Lent with Commemoration of 07:30 - Christian Pepo (L) the 40 Holy Martyrs 08:00 - Janet Sanchez Reyes - Gregorian (23) 3rd Class - Low Mass 12:15 - Maria Bondi (d) 01:15 - In honor of Padre Pio of Pietrelcina Next Sunday 06:00 - Joyce Linton (d) March 11 - 4th (Laetare) Sunday of Lent WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 - Ss. Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs WAY OF THE CROSS 07:00 - Janet Sanchez Reyes - Gregorian (24) 07:30 - Our Lady of Perpetual Help Novena Intentions The devotion of the Stations of the Cross will be prayed each Friday of Lent here at Holy Innocents beginning at 08:00 - Luciana Reyes (L) 12:45 p.m. (in between the 12:15 and 1:15 p.m. Masses) 12:15 - Living & Deceased Family of Carmine & lena Salerno and also following the 6:00 p.m. Latin Mass. 01:15 - Kata Vukas (d) 06:00 - Camille Dublin (L) SECOND COLLECTION NEXT WEEKEND THURSDAY, MARCH 8 - St John of God There will be a second collection next weekend for the 07:00 - Heidi Carteciano (d) Catholic Relief Services which support Catholic Church 07:30 - Janet Sanchez Reyes - Gregorian (25) organizations that carry out international relief and 08:00 - Roy Joseph Mirro (d) solidarity efforts. 12:15 - Leonardo & Rosa Mendoza (d) 01:15 - Bartley F. Hernan (L) LENTEN INDULGENCE 06:00 - Anthony John D’Amato (d) Please note well that on Lenten Fridays, a plenary FRIDAY, MARCH 9 - St. Frances of Rome, Religious indulgence is granted to the faithful who, after Communion, recite the “Prayer before a Cruci- 7:00 - Bill Bond (L) fix.” (For this prayer refer to any traditional Catho- 07:30 - Rodolfo Guanzon, Jr. (d) lic prayer book) 08:00 - John Pat Clarke (d) 12:15 - Janet Sanchez Reyes - Gregorian (26) 01:15 - Paul & Wife Florence Salerno (d) COLLECTION REPORT 06:00 - Lorraine, Harry & Larry Van Duzer (d) Regular Collection - 02/25/18 $8,464.82 SATURDAY, MARCH 10 - LENTEN WEEKDAY Shrines and Candles $3,284.50 Regular Collection - 02/26/17 $5,404.45 12:00 - Janet Sanchez Reyes—Gregorian (27) 01:00 - Fr. Robert E. O’Brien, S. J. ((d) Shrines and Candles $3,353.00 04:00 - Thomas Margaret L. Sheehan (L) Your continued and generous support to your Parish is greatly appreciated! NEWS FROM ROME Cardinal Sarah: Widespread Communion in the hand is part of Satan’s attack on the Eucharist The head of the Vatican department overseeing liturgy is summoning the Catholic faithful to return to receiving Holy Communion on the tongue and kneeling. In the preface to a new book on the subject by Don Federico Bortoli ti- tled: ‘The distribution of Communion on the hand: a historical, juridical and pastoral survey’ [La distribuzione della comunione sulla mano. Pro- fili storici, giuridici e pastorali], Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, writes: “The most insidious diabolical attack consists in trying to extinguish faith in the Eucharist, by sowing errors and fostering an unsuitable way of receiving it. Truly the war between Michael and his Angels on one side, and Lucifer on the other, continues in the hearts of the faithful.” “Satan’s target is the Sacrifice of the Mass and the Real Presence of Jesus in the consecrated Host,” he said. Recalling the centenary of the Fatima apparitions, Sarah writes that the Angel of Peace who appeared to the three shepherd children in advance of the Blessed Virgin’s visit “shows us how we should receive the Body and the Blood of Jesus Christ.” His Eminence then identifies the outrages by which Jesus is offended today in the Holy Eucharist, including “so-called ‘intercommunion.’” Sarah goes on to consider how faith in the Real Presence “can influence the way we receive Communion, and vice versa,” and he proposes Pope St. John Paul II and St. Mother Teresa as two modern saints whom God has given us to imitate in their reverence and reception of the Holy Eucharist. John Paul II wrote on at least three different occasions that touching the consecrated Sacred Host is a “privilege of the ordained” and Mother Tere- sa refrained from touching the transubstantiated Body of Christ. She was saddened and pained when she saw Christians receiving Holy Communion in their hands. In addition, all of her sisters received Communion only on the tongue. Is this not the exhortation that God himself addresses to us: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it”? (Ps 81:10). “Why do we insist on receiving Communion standing and on the hand?,” the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship asks. The manner in which the Holy Eucharist is distributed and received, he writes, “is an im- portant question on which the Church today must reflect.” Why this attitude of lack of submission to the signs of God? Let us come as children and humbly receive the Body of Christ on our knees and on our tongue. The saints give us the example. They are the models to be imi- tated that God offers us! REFLECTION FROM CATHERINE DOHERTY THOUGHTS FROM ST. MAXIMILIAN KOLBE Lent: Spring Cleaning Your Heart Let us trust in God, trust Him Deep inside us there is junk that has accumu- without limits. Let us be confi- lated through the years.