HOLY INNOCENTS PARISH 431 BEDFORD ROAD, PLEASANTVILLE, NY

“WE GATHER TO PRAISE, TO BLESS AND TO PROCLAIM.”

AUGUST 13, 2017

PARISH STAFF Fr. Hugh L. Burns, OP, Pastor

Fr. Daniel Davies, OP Fr. Frank Sutman, OP Fr. Gregory Doherty, OP (In Residence)

Maria Lamorgese 769-3297, x1 Director of Religious Education Joe DeSanctis 514-8731 Music Director Loretta Hotter 769-0025 Sacristan Eileen Bruehl 769-0025 x11 Parish Coordinator Thomas Conaty 769-0025 x30 Youth Minister Barbara Mackin 769-0025 x22 Business Manager afortino@hiparish.org Bulletin Editor

431 Bedford Road, Pleasantville, NY 10570 (914) 769-0025,FAX: (914) 747-2476

Website: www.hiparish.org

OFFICE HOURS Monday-Friday: 9am-3pm

Saturday: 11am-5pm Sunday: 9am-1pm

MASS SCHEDULE Saturday: 5:15pm Sunday: 7:30am, 9:00am Children’s Choir, 11am

and 5:15pm

Daily: 7:00am Monday to Saturday

12:15pm Monday-Friday during Lent

Our Lady of Pompeii, Saratoga Avenue Sunday: 10:00am

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: Saturdays: 4:30-5:00pm in the church; all other times by request.

Please call the office for an appointment.

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM: Please call the Parish Office to make arrangements for our Baptismal Preparation Program, several weeks in advance of the baby’s birth.

SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY: By appointment at least 6 months in advance.

A pre-Cana program is required.

SACRAMENT OF THE SICK: As scheduled, or anytime a priest is called. Please notify us when

a family member enters the hospital.

NEW PARISHIONERS: You are cordially invited to join our parish community.

Please stop in at the Parish Office.

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Evening Vigil 5:15 The Samborski Family 19TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 7:30 Our Parishioners 9:00 Mary Moran 10:00 (OLP) The Francioli & Cerri Family 11:00 Elena Braia 5:15 Bruce Thomas

Monday, Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Priest & Martyr 7:00 Ferdinando Loola 5:15 Rita M.O’Reilly

Tuesday, The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary 7:00 Cyril Metcalf 12:15 Francis X. Maher (8th Anniversary) 7:00 Neda Toffon

Wednesday, Weekday 7:00 Palmieri Family

Thursday, Weekday 7:00 Maggie Sheerin

Friday, Weekday 7:00 Primo Basso

Saturday, Weekday 7:00 Grace Hogan Aune

Evening Vigil 5:15 Mary and Domenic Marino 20TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 7:30 Our Parishioners 9:00 Deceased of the Surace Family 10:00 (OLP) Grazia Buzzurro 11:00 John “Jack” Healy 5:15 Anthony Cannizzaro

Please visit the Parish Office to make arrangements for Memorial Intentions

The Sanctuary Lamp at Holy Innocents burns

in Memory of Glen LaMonica

The Sanctuary Lamp at Our Lady of Pompeii burns in Memory of Joann Kramer

2017 FINANCE CORNER

Regular Maintenance July Parish Pay $ 10,868.00 $ 1,456.00

Aug 6 $ 6,372.25

Please pray for the safety of our men and women in the military, especially those who are serving overseas.

Dennis Catozella, Jimmy Fleming, Joyce Scholz Deborah Migliorini, Antonio Soto, Mary Pat & Jack McMahon, Betty Burns, Mary Renna, Barbara Walters, Juan Portillo, Jacques Padawer, Kathy FioRito, Bonnie Proudian, Jeanne Cibirka, Lucia Carlucci, Jennifer Schneider, Elsie Vernon, Richard and Maryann Colucci, Maria Provenzano, Lee Franco, Adele Casagrande, Joseph Drago, Gabrielle Sanchez, Olivia Bendus, Linda Iorizzo, Judy Chriss, Jane Chitty, Jean Balzone, Bernadette Harris, Angela Lynch, Beth Frankoviac, Rocco Zacarolli, Robert Sarro, Irene Ramirez, Eleanor Stockel, Nate Smith, Matthew Ryan Taylor, Nicholas Torres, Cathy Policastro, Mary Bachmann, Jaspare Miranda, Stephen Mercatili, Ray Aldes, Cissy Patane, Arthur Woods, Rose Cipriano, Hernan Rebagliati, Bridget Tidd, Jane Richardson (Dublin, Ireland), Helen Burton, Julia Sessa, Sean Murphy, Kathleen Shortall, Baby George Driscoll, Michael Garris, Kevin Keane, Barbara Brady, Gavin Brady, Tara Morstatt, Emma Murphy, Gina Linss, Jackie Mastrolillo, Brendan Lennon, Claudia Brooks, Lil DeCarlo, Gidget Jimenez, Nicholas Kochek, Brian Egitto, Walter Morris, Anna Hutchinson, Kathy McCann, Mary Sheehan, Dorothy Schnabel, Joseph DeSanctis (father of Joe DeSanctis), Kathy Lardaro, Lina Spedaliere, Emily Arceri

MEMORIAL INTENTIONS

OFFERTORY GIFTS Family members of those for whom a Mass is offered are welcome to present the Offertory Gifts to the celebrant at the Altar. Please identify yourself to one of the Ushers or the Celebrant before Mass begins.

CONDOLENCES We extend our sympathy and promise of prayers

to the family and friends of

Amelia Fioretti (Mother of Gerry)

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Pastor’s Poetry Post-Its

Mr. Gaudí

In Barcelona Mr G of course you are everywhere Were you born with this picture of creation This audacity of design and concept Were you struck by lightening or God’s hand Why are they still building for you now in 2014 Is it your brilliance or is it your way Of telling this city to get stuffed We will not forget that they left you to die Under a tram Neither my friend will you.

Geoffrey Fafard

The Parish Office is closed on weekends during the month of August.

“AUGUST” CALENDAR

Lectio Divina Tuesdays at 11:00am

Baptisms August 27th at 12:30pm

THE ASSUMPTION OF

THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY Holy Day of Obligation: August 15th

Masses

Monday, August 14th—5:15pm Vigil Mass

Tuesday, August 15th—7:00am, 12:15pm & 7pm

The Youth Group meets Sunday evenings at 6:15pm. All 9th graders are invited to join the Youth Group starting with the first meeting September 10th at 6:15pm. The Youth Group Mass is held the 1st Sunday of the month at 5:15pm. Our first Youth Mass will be held October 1st. If you have any questions please contact: TomConaty@hiparish.org

SEPTEMBER ●Sept. 10th: Youth Group Meeting at 6:15pm ●Sept. 17th: Youth Group Meeting at 6:15pm ●Sept. 24th: Cottage School Visit at 2:30pm ●Sept. 24th: Youth Group Meeting at 6:15pm

OCTOBER ●Oct. 1st: Breakfast Run at 6:45am ●Oct. 1st: Youth Mass at 5:15pm ●Oct. 1st: Youth Group Meeting at 6:15pm

Pastor’s Post-It

Having just returned from Barcelona I cannot help having Gaudí on my mind, so thus today’s poem. Barcelona is a glorious city noted worldwide for its architecture. No one adorned the city more lavishly and creatively than Antoni Gaudí. Many architects have a signature style that marks their buildings. You can tell at a glance that it is their work. With Gaudí each edifice is utterly unique. The man had a magnificent imagination. It boggles the mind to realize that his creations were from the 1880’s and 90’s and into the earliest years of the 20th century: undulating ceilings, sinuous and anatomical like adornments, chimneys that look like Darth Vader, shards of bright colored tiles on the facades, large lizards spewing water, and wrought iron gates with foreboding dragon sentries. Even our 21st century eyes find them astounding and futuristic.

His last and perhaps greatest work is the Basilica of Sagrada Familia, which he never finished. As the poem notes, he was run over by a trolley in front of it and Barcelona’s star architect laid unrecognized in a hospital bed for days until he died. He never left the plans for his great church. It was all locked in his head. The basilica remained unfinished for decades with only minor tinkering until recently. The efforts to complete it are now in over- drive. The question remains, whether Gaudí would approve of someone else’s ideas for what he might have done? He did largely complete the exterior before he was struck down. It stands in the middle of Barcelona like a gothic cathedral on crack — wildly imaginative, and whimsical and perhaps slightly irreverent.

Gaudí with all of his unorthodox innovations and flights of fancy was a very pious and religious man. He was a particularly devout Catholic and at present his cause for canonization is well underway. He proves that saints can be playful and take a certain license in depicting the mysteries of God. Gaudí’s wild creativity is after all but a gift from a Creator who made giraffes and black holes, rainbows and sunsets, rattle snakes and Tasmanian devils...and us!

Antoni Gaudí, pregueu per nosaltres (Antoni Gaudí pray for us).

Fr. Hugh, OP

2018 BOOK OF MASS INTENTIONS

The Book of Mass Intentions for 2018 is open. We expect that the 2018 Book of Mass Intentions will fill up quickly again. Therefore, you may request only ONE Sunday Mass (which includes the 5:15pm on Saturday evening) and no more than ONE (1) Weekday Mass at Holy Innocents. Mass requests must be made in person or by phone during our weekly office hours Monday-Friday from 9:00am-3:00pm only.

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Last week at Vacation Bible School we had such a wonderful time of worship, learning, sharing, great music, crafts and games. We spent time with old and new friends from other Christian Churches. It was an amazing experience for all of us! Let us pray…

Dear Lord, We pray in thanksgiving for the beautiful time

that was shared. We pray for the volunteers who made the week so

successful. May they rest and relax for the remainder of the summer. May they sense God’s pleasure and

satisfaction for the work that they did. We pray that what was learned during VPS will make a difference in the lives of all those who participated.

May all of us continue to be enthusiastic about praying, learning and sharing as we were during this

awesome week! Amen.

Maria Lamorgese, Director 914-769-3297 Ext. 1 mlamorgese@hiparish.org

This weekend our entrance hymn is a favorite of Christians everywhere. How Great Thou Art began as a poem written by a 26 year old Swedish preacher named Carl Gustav Boberg in 1885. The inspiration for the poem came after returning home from an afternoon service and is described by the composer himself: "It was that time of year when everything seemed to be in its richest colouring; the birds were singing in trees and everywhere. It was very warm; a thundercloud appeared on the horizon and soon intense thunder and lightning began. We had to hurry to shelter. But the storm was soon over and the clear sky appeared. "When I came home I opened my window toward the sea, it was still and mirrored the surrounding nature. There evidently had been a funeral and the bells were playing the tune of 'When eternity's clock is calling my saved soul to its Sabbath rest.' It was this series of sights, sounds and experiences that inspired the writing of the 9 stanza poem titled “O Store Gud” which translates to “O Great God”. Boberg published the poem in a religious periodical and was surprised and delighted several years later to hear his poem being sung by a church congregation to the tune of an old Swedish folk song. According to Boberg’s great-nephew, Bud Boberg, “it was used in the “underground

Music Ministry Continued.... church' in Sweden in the late 1800s when the Baptists and Mission Friends were persecuted." In the early 1900s the poem was translated into German by Manfred von Glehn, who entitled it Wie gross bist Du. In 1925, an American, Reverend E. Gustav Johnson, translated the Swedish poem into an English version that is somewhat different than the one popular today. For instance, the first line of Johnson's hymn reads: “Oh mighty God, when I behold the wonder”. In 1927, I.S. Prokanoff translated Glehn's German version into Russian, to be enjoyed by that culture also. Throughout all of these translations, the original Swedish folk tune remained the same. In 1933, English missionaries to the Ukraine, Reverend and Mrs. Stuart K. Hine heard the song for the first time, fell in love with it and sang it often throughout their missionary journeys. As they traveled the Carpathian Mountains, the couple got caught in a thunderstorm, they too were inspired by the incredible beauty and translated the first three verses of the song into English. When WWII broke out in 1939, the Hines returned to England carrying How Great Thou Art to its new home. After the war they wrote the fourth verse and arranged the original Swedish folk tune to be published in English hymnals. Although its origin had roots in Europe, it was not widely known here until it became a popular part of the Billy Graham Crusades of the 1950s where it was performed by gospel singers George Beverly Shea and Cliff Barrows. According to Dr. Graham, “I like How Great Thou Art because it glorifies God. It turns a Christian’s eyes toward God, rather than upon themselves. “Then sings my soul, my Savior, God to thee; How Great Thou Art, How Great Thou Art!”

DRIVE FOR SCHOOL SUPPLIES

The Social Concerns Committee, as part of our outreach program to the Highbridge community, is conducting a drive for NEW school supplies. These supplies will be distributed to 200 impoverished children before the opening of the coming school year. New items requested include: black and white composition books, pencils, pens, erasers, rulers, crayons, folders, loose leaf paper, loose leaf binders and backpacks. Donations may be left in the appropriate box in the Tompkins Ave. entrance of the church. Your donations are deeply appreciated and will be put to good use.

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It’s that time again for our VeggieTales Pizza & Movie Night

Come and find YOUR favorite Hero of the Bible!

An adult must accompany child(ren)

There will be a craft at the end!

WHERE: Holy Innocents Social Hall

WHEN: Friday, August 18, 2017

TIME: 6:00-7:30

COST: $10.00 per family (family of 4)

$ 2.00 additional per person

$ 2.00 for an extra slice of pizza

BRING: A blanket or chair, A smile to share!

RSVP: By August 16th to: holyinnocentsfamilyevents@gmail.com

(Please indicate # of people in family to ensure I order enough pizza for everyone!!)

OR simply fill out the form below and leave in the main office.

VeggieTales Movie Night

NAME OF FAMILY: _____________________________

NUMBER OF ATTENDEES (&, or # of slices): ________

Amount Enclosed: ___________

(Please let us know of any possible allergies as we will have other snacks there!)

We will accommodate late RSVPs and Walk-Ins but please email above address as soon as possible

(even on the day of) so we have enough pizza to go around!!

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August Food Needs: Cereal, Pancake Flour, Pancake Syrup, Brown Rice,

Pasta, Canned Tuna, Canned Corn, Chef Boyardee Products, Jelly

“25TH & 50TH” WEDDING ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

Holy Innocents is planning a celebration on Sunday, October 15th for those parishioners who are celebrating their 25th or 50th Wedding Anniversary during 2017. Participants will be recognized at the 11am Mass followed by a reception in our Social Hall. If you are celebrating either Wedding Anniversary this year, please register with the parish office by calling 769-0025.

PARISH PAY TRANSITIONING Thank you for using online giving for your support of our parish. Online giving is safe, simple, and convenient. It benefits our parish by helping to streamline our administrative process and providing more accurate budgeting. Our current online giving provider, ParishPay, has been acquired by Liturgical Publications. All ParishPay accounts will be transitioned to WeShare, LPi’s online giving platform early in the fall. You do not need to do anything for this transition process. Your information will be transferred electronically following the strictest security protocol. Once the transition is complete, you will receive more information about how to login and manage your account on WeShare.

AMERICAN HERITAGE GIRLS

Holy Innocents' American Heritage Girls Troop is forming units for 2017-18. We invite you to gather your daughter and her friends, and join us! AHG gives girls a scouting experience that is not only fun and adventurous, but also based in faith and character-formation. AHG leaders can tailor their groups to their interests, with excellent program support and resources. No experience necessary; just a desire to help girls grow socially and spiritually, in life skills, leadership, and teamwork.

AHG is for girls in kindergarten through high school. Units are based on age, and meet Fridays once a month 6:00-7:30pm, with occasional weekend service projects.

Anyone interested in leading an AHG unit and/or signing up a daughter, please contact Justine at pvilleahg@gmail.com.

MENTORING PROGRAM

Volunteers (age 25 to 45) willing to donate a minimum of 4 hours per month are needed for a Mentoring Program at St Christopher’s Inc, a residential treatment center for adolescents aged 13 to 21 located in Dobbs Ferry. Training would be provided in early September and fingerprints along with additional paperwork would be required. The program would include on-campus visits and build up to walks, meals and activities in the community. Volunteers would need to commit to consistent visits from September through June. Anyone interested should contact Colleen W a g n e r a t 9 1 4 - 3 3 0 - 1 9 0 6 o r e m a i l

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We thank all our advertisers.

NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME August 13, 2017

First Reading: 1 Kings 19:9a, 11-13a After fleeing from the revenge of the King of Israel, Elijah hid in a cave, but at the command of God, he went outside and stood on a mountain. There the Lord came to him, not in the wind nor in the earthquake, but in a “tiny whispering sound.” Second Reading: Romans 9:1-5 Paul is deeply pained because the Jews - in spite of everything that has been given to them - have rejected Christ. Gospel: Matthew 14:22-33 Matthew vividly recounts the event of Jesus walking on the water. When the disciples see this, they are terrified, and Jesus chastises them for their fear. Peter begs Christ to let him walk on the water; he is at first brave but begins to sink and loses faith, crying out, “Lord save me!” Christ rescues him for his faltering faith.

“Elijah came to a cave where he took shelter. Then the Lord said, ‘Go outside and stand on the mountain before the Lord: the Lord will be passing by.’ A strong wind…but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake there was a fire – but the Lord was not in the fire. After the fire there was a tiny whispering sound…”