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Sunday, January 14, 2018| Second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B

PARISH STAFF

Pastor Rev. Fr. Jonathan Morris

Parochial Vicar

Rev. Fr. Israel K. Boadi

Coordinator of Religious Education Sister Edna Loquias, S.M.C.

Business Manager Esteban Perez

Parish Secretary Elizabeth Mannini

Music Director & Organist Dr. Stephen Rapp

Cantor Bilen Eminov

Youth Minister School Principal Jesus Vargas Ms. Valerie Savino

LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

Saturday: 8:30am | 12:00pm (Both English)

Saturday Evening: 5:00pm (Vigil Mass in English)

Sunday: 8:30am (English) | 9:30am (Spanish)

11:00am (Italian) | 12:15pm (English)

1:30pm (Spanish)

Weekday: 8:30am / 12:00pm / 6:30pm (All English)

RITE OF RECONCILIATION

Saturdays 4:00pm to 5:00pm or any time by calling the Parish Office.

RITE OF BAPTISM

2nd Sunday of every month in Spanish at 2:30pm 3rd Sunday every other month in English at 2:30pm Attendance at Pre - Baptism Class is required. Please stop by the Parish Center to register or call for more information.

RITE OF MATRIMONY

Wedding dates may be scheduled after initial meeting with a priest.

PASTORAL VISITS TO THE SICK

If you or someone you know is in the hospital or homebound and would be served by a pastoral visit by a Priest, Religious Sister or a lay Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion, please contact the Parish Center.

NEW PARISHIONERS

We invite new parishioners to register at the Parish Center.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION PROGRAM

For information please call Sr. Edna at the Parish Office at (718) 295-3770.

MOUNT CARMEL SCHOOL 2465 Bathgate Avenue

Please contact the School Office at (718) 295-6080.

PARISH CENTER

2380 Belmont Avenue Bronx, NY 10458

Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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ANNOUNCED MASSES

Sunday, January 14th| Second Sunday in O. T. 8:30am Adelaida Arda 9:30am Pro Populo 11:00am Concetta Roberto

12:15pm Giuseppe Ruscigno - 1st Anniversary 1:30pm Arturo Rosales

Monday, January 15th | Weekday 8:30am For the parishioners of OLMC 12:00pm Giulia, Filomena & Angelo Salvatore

6:30pm Joe Binder

Tuesday, January 16th | Weekday

8:30am For the Holy Souls 12:00pm Adelaida Arda 6:30pm Joseph Violetta (L)

Wednesday, January 17th | St. Anthony, Abbot 8:30am Michael Farley 12:00pm Maria Moschetta & Antonio Marricco 6:30pm Lina Lumaj (L)

Thursday, January 18th | Weekday

8:30am Laura Signorile

12:00pm Tamara Rivera

6:30pm Felicetta Moschetta

Friday, January 19th | Weekday

8:30am Jose Francisco Montes Hernandez

12:00pm Rose, Paul & Rocco Neglio

6:30pm Adelaida Arda

Saturday, January 20th | Weekday; SS. Fabian & Sebastian

8:30am Francesca, Giulio & Giovanni Di Maggio 12:00pm Padre Pio Prayer Group

5:00pm Maria Michela & Vincenzo Malafronte

Sunday, January 21st| Third Sunday in O. T. 8:30am Rita & Victoria Ippolito 9:30am Pro Populo 11:00am Alice Barrett 12:15pm Pilar Zeledon 1:30pm En Honor a la Virgen de Altagracia

From the Desk of Father Jonathan

I wanted to update you on our parish's continued out-reach to the families affected by the fire on Prospect Ave of December 28th.

More important than any of the material and financial help is the spiritual accompaniment we have tried to offer. We began with the multi-faith prayer service for all of the families last Tuesday evening. Since then we have officiated funerals or memorial services for seven of the deceased. On Saturday evening, January 13th, we will host a prayer vigil in our church for the six Gha-naian victims. We are especially blessed to have our own Fr. Israel, a Ghanaian himself, to provide them comfort. Later next week we will also host the funeral mass for Emanuel Mensah, the Army private, who heroi-cally saved several people in the building before losing his own life.

On the material side of things, I am so grateful to all of you who have donated whatever you could to help these families. First was the clothing and then the financial support. We have raised over $200,000 for the twenty-seven families who have been displaced. With the goal of transparency and efficiency, we have formed a small committee of neighborhood leaders, with supervision and guidance from Catholic Charities, to make sure the money goes directly to families most in need, based on professional case management assessments. There will be no overhead or administrative costs. Every penny will go to these wonderful, hardworking people in their mo-ment of need as a tangible sign of our love for them. Congratulations for showing the world that most people are very good when given a chance to do some-thing special.

One of our parishioners gave me an amazing example of this goodness and generosity. He came up to me after mass with an envelope in hand. Handing me the envelope, he said, "I have decided not to go on vacation this year because I want to use the money I had saved for that purpose to help these families." Wow. We all remember the song, "They will know we are Christians by our love".

God bless, Father Jonathan

+ REST IN PEACE + Please pray for Felicia Zaccardo, Ann Marie Fusco,

Adele Immerso and all the faithful departed

WEEKEND MASSES - 12/31/17

Collection …………......................................$3,387.51 Last year’s collection............................................$4,241.15

WEEKEND ATTENDANCE - 12/31/2017

Adults: ……. 639 Children: …… 258 Total: ……897

PRAYER VIGIL FOR LIFE The Archdiocese of New York is hosting a prayer

vigil here in New York for all parishes to come together to

commemorate the 45th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade. St. Pope John Paul II has said that “prayer is the most

powerful force in human history!” The prayer vigil will be at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral on Sunday, January 21,

2018, beginning with Holy Mass at 5:30 p.m., followed by Adoration with music by the Sisters of Life. For those who could not be present at the March for Life in Washington D.C., this event offers a local pilgrimage for the building up of the culture of life in our nation. The event is open to all parishioners.

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THE LAMB OF GOD

“Behold the Lamb of God!” We hear this phrase every Sunday at Mass, but there’s a good chance that many Roman Catholics do not know who in the Bible originally spoke it. The phrase appears only in the Gospel of John, on the lips of John the Baptist, who utters it twice. In today’s Gospel reading, John proclaims Jesus as the Lamb of God, and two of John’s own disciples then follow Christ. A little bit later Andrew, who heard John and then followed Jesus, brings his brother Simon to be re-named Cephas, or Peter. A careful look at these Bible verses shows us the mission of everyone baptized into the Body of Christ: we must always proclaim our faith in Christ, so that others will follow him. We may not know how the will of God might work through those we bring to Christ; that is not the point. The point is that our ongoing mission as a church is to bring others to Christ, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

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L’AGNELLO DI DIO

Il brano presenta il sapore dei fatti vissuti e ben impressi nella memoria, perché hanno cambiato la vita. I discepoli hanno dato la loro fiducia a Giovanni il Battista. È sulla sua parola che “seguono” Gesù indicato come l’“Agnello di Dio”. L’incontro con Cristo prende l’avvio da una domanda che gli viene rivolta: “Dove abiti?”. Ma subito si trasforma in un affidamento dei discepoli al mistero. Gesù risponde: “Venite e vedrete”. L’esperienza del condividere tutto convince i discepoli che Gesù è il Messia atteso. L’incontro con Cristo non è un avvenimento superficiale: si configura come un sentirsi compresi e amati; cambia il nome, e, con il nome, cambia l’atteggiamento di fondo: “Tu sei Simone... ti chiamerai Cefa”. Il trovare Gesù - o meglio, l’essere trovati da Gesù - non solo muta l’esistenza, ma rende annunciatori della salvezza. A modo di traboccamento di gioia. A modo di esigenza di partecipare insieme alla vita nuova scoperta

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TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION

“Ordinary Time” began for us this week. On the old calendar, the feast of the Presentation, still more than two weeks away, was the last day of the Christmas season. Sadly, Bethlehem is hardly a place of peace on earth these days. The ancient Christian community has been largely uprooted by political strife. The Church of the Nativity stands (barely) in remarkable disrepair and disorder in Manger Square. The roof is crumbling, the major door-ways are blocked, the wiring is faulty, and the worship life is disrupted by quarrels among Eastern Christians. The church was founded by the Emperor Constantine in 325, destroyed in a Samaritan revolt in 539, and rebuilt by the Emperor Justinian. When the area came under Muslim control in 638, the holiness of the church was respected, and in return Christians allowed Muslims to pray in the south aisle, a right still upheld. Earlier in that century, invading Persians were ordered to destroy all churches, but when they saw the magi carved over the doorway of the Church of the Nativity, they spared it out of respect for their ancestors who bore gold, frankin-cense, and myrrh to the same city. The Crusaders re-stored and redecorated the church by the twelfth century, and it is their plan that survives. Down a few stone steps is a stone grotto with a silver star marking the place of Christ’s birth: when the star was stolen in 1847 it trig-gered an international crisis that exploded into the Crime-an War. Since 1852, the church has been shared by the Ro-man Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Armenian Churches. The Greeks are in charge of the grotto, but don’t enjoy the best of friendships with the Armenians. Catholics have the care of the Chapel of the Manger, and avoid the squabbles by a separate entrance to the Franciscan mon-astery church of St. Catherine. Pray for peace in Bethle-hem!

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Dalle Sacre Scritture

Dinanzi a me hai preparato una mensa e il mio calice trabocca. (Sal 23,5)

Abbiamo conosciuto l’amore che Dio ha per noi

e vi abbiamo creduto. (1Gv 4,16)

Giovanni Battista vide Gesù e disse: “Ecco l’Agnello di Dio!”.

E i discepoli seguirono Gesù. (Gv 1,36-37)

MEMORIALS

Sanctuary Lamp

In Loving Memory of

Adele Immerso

From Your Sister, Lydia Corso

CHAINS OF GRACE

The chains of grace are so powerful, and yet so sweet, that though they attract our heart, they do not shackle our freedoms.

—St. Francis de Sales

CORDERO DE DIOS “Este es el Cordero de Dios”. Escuchamos esta frase todos los domingos en la Misa pero es muy probable que muchos católicos no sepan quién la pronunció originariamente en la Biblia. La frase aparece en el Evangelio de Juan, en los labios de Juan Bautista a quien dice dos veces. En la lectura del Evangelio de hoy, Juan proclama que Jesús es el Cordero de Dios y entonces dos de los discípulos de Juan siguen a Cristo. Un poco más tarde Andrés, quien escuchó a Juan y siguió a Jesús, lleva a su hermano Simón para que reciba un nuevo nombre: Kefás, es decir Pedro. Si estudiamos a fondo estos versículos de la Biblia vemos la misión de todos los bautizados en el Cuerpo de Cristo: Siempre debemos proclamar nuestra fe en Cristo, para que otros lo sigan. Quizás no sepamos de qué manera la voluntad de Dios obrará en los que llevamos a Cristo, pero eso no es lo importante. Lo que importa es que nuestra misión constante como Iglesia es llevar a otras personas a Cristo, el Cordero de Dios, que quita el pecado del mundo.

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ENCUENTRO DE PAREJAS

“La pareja que ora unida siempre se mantendrá unida”

Domingo, 28 de Enero 3:00pm a 5:00pm

Salón de FATIMA HALL

Invitación a:

Parejas casadas, no casadas, parejas de novios y solteros

¡¡LOS ESPERAMOS!!

MISA EN HONOR

A LA VIRGEN DE ALTAGRACIA

EL PROXIMO DOMINGO 21 de Enero

1:30 p.m.

Lectors for January 20th & 21st 5:00pm A. Zervos & A. Hansen

8:30am N. Watson & B. Rivera 9:30am TBA 11:00am M. Barrett & N. Trombetta 12:15pm M. Gerbasi & S. Hernandez 1:30pm TBA

PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN

Anyone who needs to report an alleged incident of sexu-al abuse of a minor by a priest, deacon, religious or lay person serving in the Archdiocese of New York is asked to contact Sr. Eileen Clifford, O.P. at 212-371-1000 ext. 2949 or Deacon George J. Coppola at 917-861-1762. Both may be reached via e-mail at victimassis-tance@archny.org.

Information can also be found on the Archdiocesan website: http://ny-archdiocese.org

In keeping with the Archdiocesan policy regarding sex-ual abuse of minors, this information is provided to en-sure that our children remain safe and secure.

PROTEGER A NUESTROS NIÑOS

Cualquier persona que necesite reportar algún inci-dente de abuso sexual de un menor por un sacerdote, diacono, religioso/a, o laico sirviendo en la Arquidió-cesis de Nueva York, se le pide que por favor contac-te Hermana Eileen Clifford, O.P. al (212) 371-1000 extensión 2949 o Deacon George J. Coppola at 917-861-1762. Ambos también pueden ser contactados vía correo electrónico: victimassistance@archny.org. Para más información pueden visitar la página en la red de la Arquidiócesis: www.archny.org. De acuerdo con las normas de la Arquidiócesis respeto al abuso sexual de menores, esta información se provee para asegurar que nuestros niños permanezcan seguros.

PROTEGGENDO AI NOSTRI RAGAZZI

Chiunque abbia bisogno di denunciare un presunto episodio di abuso sessuale di un minore da un sacerdote, diacono, religioso o laico al servizio nell'Arcidiocesi di New York, è pregato di contattare Sr. Eileen Clifford, OP al 212-371-1000 x 2949 o il diacono George J. Coppola al 917-861-1762. Entrambi possono anche essere raggiunto via e-mail a victimassistance@archny.org. Informazioni si possono trovare anche sul sito internet dell' Arcidiocesi, www.archny.org. Mantenendo la linea politica dell'Arcidiocesi riguardanti abusi sessuali su minori, queste informazioni sono fornite al fine di garantire che i nostri ragazzi rimangano al sicuro.

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