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Blessed Sacrament 534 Oxford Street

Rochester, New York 14607

259 Rutgers Street (mailing) Rochester, New York 14607

(585) 271-7240 (585) 442-7517 Fax

Sunday 10:00 a.m. & 12:15 p.m.

Mon & Wed at 8:00 a.m.

Saint Boniface 330 Gregory Street



(585) 271-7240 (585) 442-7517 Fax

Saturday 5:00 p.m. Sunday 9:00 a.m.

Tues & Fri 7:30 a.m.

Sacrament of Penance Saturday 4:00 p.m.

Saint Mary’s 15 St. Mary’s Place



(585) 271-7240 (585) 442-7517 Fax

Saturday 4:00 p.m. Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Mon, Thurs, Fri 12:10 p.m.

Rosary & Communion Tues & Wed 12:10 p.m.

Sacrament of Penance

Saturday 3:00 p.m.

July 28, 2019 Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Saint Mary’s Saint Boniface Blessed Sacrament

WELCOME EVERYONE: No matter who you are, no matter where you've been, no matter what you've done, you are invited, accepted a nd most welcome in our parish communities. We hope Christ will bring fullness into your life, and that we can provide you with the spiritual support and information you need.

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PARISH PICNIC SUNDAY, AUGUST 18

We hope you will be spending time with us at this year’s parish picnic!! Come and join us from 11:30am until 3:00pm (Food served 12-2:30pm), in the Carmen Clark Lodge at Brighton Town Park for the Southeast Rochester Catholic Community’s All Parish Picnic! Enjoy delicious food and the company of your fellow parishioners! Hots, hamburgers and brats, salads and more $5 per person/$20 per family. Tickets are available this weekend after all Masses! If your last name begins with A-I, bring cookies, watermelon or other fruit salads. If your last name begins with J-Z, bring salads, baked beans or veggie plates.

Parish Offices are located in the Rectory of Blessed Sacrament Church Hours are Monday through Friday 8:30am-4:30pm

Sunday, July 28 10:00 a.m. Coffee Hour— Perotti/Scheuerman(SB)

Monday, July 29 6:00 p.m. Bible Study in School (BS)

Tuesday, July 30 5:30 p.m. Baptismal Preparation in School (BS) Wednesday, July 31

Thursday, August 1 Friday, August 2

Saturday, August 3 3:00 p.m. Sacrament of Penance (SM) 4:00 p.m. Sacrament of Penance (SB)

Sunday, August 4 10:00 a.m. Coffee Hour— (SB)

Saturday, July 27 3:00 p.m. (SM) Sacrament of Penance 4:00 p.m. (SB) Sacrament of Penance 4:00 p.m. (SM) The Parishioners of the SERCC 5:00 p.m. (SB) John C. Lieser by Wife Marie & Family

Sunday, July 28, Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 9:00 a.m. (SB) Laura Lasky by Mary Ann & Terry Tokash 10:00 a.m. (BS) For the Intentions of Vito & Ralph Cassan by Peter P. Romeo 10:30 a.m. (SM) The Parishioners of the SERCC 12:15 p.m. (BS) Elizabeth Rook by Gary & Virginia Goodwin Monday, July 29 7:30 a.m. (BS) Rosary before 8:00am Mass 8:00 a.m. (BS) June Bauer by John & Judy Lynd 12:10 p.m. (SM) The Parishioners of the SERCC

Tuesday, July 30 7:30 a.m. (SB) The Parishioners of the SERCC 12:10 p.m. (SM) Rosary w/Communion

Wednesday, July 31 7:30 a.m. (BS) Rosary before 8:00am Mass 8:00 a.m. (BS) Mary Helen Hart by Ed & Kathy Lynd 12:10 p.m. (SM) Rosary w/Communion

Thursday, August 1 12:10 p.m. (SM) The Parishioners of the SERCC

Friday, August 2 7:30 a.m. (SB) The Parishioners of the SERCC 12:10 p.m. (SM) The Parishioners of the SERCC

Saturday, August 3 1:00 p.m. (SM) Wdg: Sarah Lawson/Stephen Cammarata 3:00 p.m. (SM) Sacrament of Penance 4:00 p.m. (SB) Sacrament of Penance 4:00 p.m. (SM) The Parishioners of the SERCC 5:00 p.m. (SB) The Parishioners of the SERCC

Sunday, August 4 9:00 a.m. (SB) The Parishioners of the SERCC 10:00 a.m. (BS) Stephen & Mary Travinski by Zinone Family 10:30 a.m. (SM) J. Terrance “Terrry” O’Herron by Tom Huonker 12:15 p.m. (BS) Elizabeth Rook by Patricia Hans Mary Bader-Nixon by Deirdre Keating-Bertucci

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Please Pray for Our Parishioners: Margherita Pompeii, Michelle Wade, Michelle Bach Skubis, Layla Tremble, Pete Bansbach, Margaret Nordbye, Tina Wagner, Louise Fletcher, Carla Logan, Jim Melito, Virginia Fifield, Marie Voelkl, David Ballerstein, Diane Porcelli, Tim Crosier, Leona Hickey, Mary Hardy, Michael Boothby, John Larish, Joan Hacker, Bridget Toth, Larry Grasta, James Boyle, Larry Schlosser, Edward J. Murphy, Jr., Lois Winslow, Patricia Hynes, Loretta Rose Doyle, Rob Armour, Sr. Marilyn Williams, Muriel Dech, Marilyn Dietz, Silvia Centanni, Landon August Coia, Frances Carney, Ann Marie Arnold, David Boothby, Barbara Fransen, Sheila Keeler, Thomas Stalts.

Please help us keep our list accurate by calling as soon as possible when you or a loved one would like to be removed from the list. Please Note: Due to HIPAA regulations, hospitals are not allowed to give out the names of patients when they call to report our parishioner is in the hospital. If you or a loved one is in the hospital, please contact the church office directly to let us know.

Weekly Calendar/Parish Events Devotions, Liturgies and Mass Intentions

Readings for August 4, 2019 Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

ECC 1: 2; 2:21-23 COL 3: 1-5, 9-11

LK 12: 13-21

BANNS OF MARRIAGE Please pray for the following couples getting married:

Sarah Lawson & Steven Cammarata (SM) Kathleen Sullivan & Anthony Mastrodonato (SM)

Julia Stanchus & Brandon Alt (BS)

BETHANY HOUSE Please note: There will be no Bethany House Service and Dinner held in August. They will resume on Wednesday, September 11.

COLLECTION COUNTERS NEEDED ! Due to health issues, we have recently lost several cash counters. We count Sunday Mass collections each Monday morning at all three parish offices. The time commitment is approximately 1 ½ - 2 hours every other week. If you are interested in helping in this important ministry, please contact Molly Hedges at [email protected] or 271-7240. If you are unable to commit to a regular rotation, but would like to

be placed on a substitute list, that is an option as well.

Bulletin content is due by noon on Tuesday. Please send bulletin info to Kathy Marfione at [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


A WORD FROM FR. JOHN…

In reflecting on our readings for Sunday Mass this week, I was struck by how the readings ask us to consider various conceptions of God and what God is like. What sort of God does Abraham imagine that he is bargaining with over the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah? Abraham does not question God’s right to punish the guilty. But he is concerned that God would sweep away the innocent with the guilty. For Abraham, a just God would not treat the innocent and guilty alike. In the face of such an image of God, Abraham acts very submissive and subservient, as he pushes God to spare the cities for the sake of 50, 45, 40, 30, 20 and then 10 innocent people. Abraham stops at 10. But could he have gone further? Did Abraham’s conception of God as a just judge prevent him from conceiving that God was so merciful that God would have spared the cities for fewer than ten people, say just two or three, or maybe even just one? Contrast that with what Paul tells us in his letter to the Colossians about what God is like. Paul offers an image of God who is infinitely gracious and merciful. God is no longer a just judge who wipes out the guilty. Instead, our God is one who brings us to life with Jesus, even though we were dead because of our sin and not a part of the covenant with Abraham through circumcision. Our God goes beyond merely forgiving all of our sins by obliterating the debts we owe as a result of our sins. God removes them from us, nailing them to the cross. As Paul says elsewhere that appears to be utter foolishness to secular thinkers and scandalous to religious thinkers. How is that possible? Consider the image of God that Jesus offers us in our gospel today. His disciples ask Jesus to teach them to pray, to have an intimate, personal conversation with God. Notice the images that Jesus uses to portray God. First, we are to address God as our father. As you know, the word that Jesus uses is Abba, which is akin to our use of daddy or papa—a very familiar, endearing and intimate form of address. Regardless of our own experience with fathers or parental figures in our own life, our God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is worthy of being called such. And God desires that sort of close, loving, personal relationship with us. Second, we are to approach God as a friend that we could go to in the middle of night when they and their household are asleep, waking them up and asking that they give us something. And even if we don’t believe that God will give us what we need because of our friendship, we know that God will respond because of our persistence. In terms of giving us what we need, our Heavenly Father gives us the best gift possible in the Holy Spirit. Given these differing conceptions of our God, we might ask ourselves what our own image of God is? And once we have done that, we ought to consider what that means for us who have been made in God’s image and likeness. We might reflect on that especially as it relates to the forgiveness we ask of God in the Lord’s Prayer and how that relates to the forgiveness we share with others. Many of you may be aware of the electrical project taking place at St. Mary’s that required the cutoff of power to the church and rectory this past week. When the entire electrical project is complete, we will finally have lights on the spire and new cross at St. Mary’s. There are a number of other projects in the works at all three of our campuses. This coming week the paving contactor will return to complete the parking lot at Blessed Sacrament, now that the city has repaired the sidewalk at the Rutgers St. entrance. In addition, a new sign on Monroe Avenue, school window repair project, refinishing of the church doors, work on the boiler in school, and church roof repairs are all in the works at Blessed Sacrament. A roofing contactor will be making needed repairs to the convent roof at St. Boniface. And we are looking into refinishing the St. Boniface church doors as well. As I mentioned previously, an electrical rewiring project on the Austin organ in the loft at St. Marys’ is underway. And in the next few months, work will start on a new boiler for the church and on repairs to the Madonna of the Highways shrine at St. Mary’s. Your contributions to the various parish building funds through the use of the special collection envelopes and judicious use of our savings make possible these needed projects to maintain our fourteen aging buildings. Thank you for continuing to be good stewards of God’s many gifts. Looking ahead to events in our parish, please be sure to mark your calendars for the Gateways Music Festival on Sunday, August 11th (see page 5), as a part of which we will welcome young African-American Classical musicians to our 10:30am Mass at St. Mary’s. And I invite you to join us for fun, food and fellowship at our All Parish Picnic on Sunday, August 18, from 11:30am to 2:30pm, in the Carmen Clark Lodge at Brighton Town Park. Tickets are on sale after all Masses starting this weekend and available through the parish office. Peace and blessings! Yours,

Fr. John


RENEWING AND REFRESHING ADULT FAITH

“The world needs changing, and this single idea of Holy Moments can change the world again. It has before.”

Taken from The Biggest Lie in the History of Christianity by Matthew Kelly

During these summer weeks we will share Holy Moments sent to us by parishioners. You can add your name or remain anonymous. Email your comments to Sister Kathleen [email protected] or Peg Rosenthal [email protected] or drop them in the collection basket. Three Holy Moments occurring in our family recently were related to the severe illness of our neighbor who has a family of school-aged children. My wife and I put together a complete meal to give them to relieve the stress of hospital visits, leaving her no time for food preparation. In addition, I mowed his lawn and one of my sons volunteered to spread his mulch. —John Ladd Every Saturday morning from 10:00-11:00, while processing on the sidewalk in front of Highland Hospital, 1000 South Avenue, three mysteries of the rosary (15 decades are prayed for the end of the culture of death, primarily abortion). Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: "The Holy Moments Hour" Pray the rosary regularly. —Gerard Ehmann


Our teens participated in afternoons of service during Bible Camp Week. They learned about the monthly Homeless Initiative from Deacon David and then prepared lunches for the people they

encountered. If you want to find out more information about Youth activities email our Youth team at [email protected]

NCYC--NOVEMBER 21-23

BLESSED, BROKEN, GIVEN Indiana Convention Center & Lucas Oil Stadium In a distinctly Catholic setting, the National Catholic Youth Conference invites participants to encounter Christ, experience church, and be empowered for discipleship. Check out what the Convention is like. Learn more about how faith and fellowship will be shared.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ6bli2Cq14

News

The summer months are here, bringing vacations and other activities. Please consider keeping your weekly giving current. Throughout the summer months, even while you are away, expenses such as air conditioning, personnel costs, and maintenance of all three of our facilities continue. We thank you in advance for your commitment to the Southeast Rochester Catholic Community, and wish you a safe and happy summer!

GOLF ANYONE?! A casual golf outing is being planned for Sunday afternoon, Aug. 25, at Winding Creek par three golf course in Victor.

We will meet at 3.00 pm. The cost is $10.00 per person. Walking cart rentals are $1 and a riding cart is $6. We will go out for something to eat afterwards at a nearby restaurant. For more information, contact Bill Robert at [email protected].

CONFIRMATION PREPARATION

If you are preparing to enter the 8th grade (or above)—in a Catholic, private or public school, or home schooled and would like to learn more about the process to prepare for Confirmation, please contact Sister Kathleen at the Faith Formation office 507-9961 or [email protected]. Year 2 Confirmation candidates and parents will receive information electronically with the schedule. The preparation process will begin in early September. New this year: Online Registration and payment. You have asked, and we are finally able to accommodate you!!! An online registration form for Religion Classes for the Faith Formation of children grades PreK – High School will be available August 1st. Check the parish website under the Faith Formation tab. All programs begin the weekend of Catechetical Sunday, September 14th-15th. Please register as soon as possible so materials can be ordered. Please note—following the Sacramental Policies promulgated by Bishop Matano in September, 2014, Children must be registered in a program (Catholic School, Parish Faith Formation programs) for one year prior to preparation for the sacraments of Confirmation, First Communion or First Penance.








MINISTERIAL STAFF

Fr. John Loncle, Pastor, [email protected]

Fr. Mike Mayer, Parochial Vicar, [email protected]

Fr. Felicjan Sierotowicz, In Residence, [email protected]

Fr. Ed Palumbos, Assisting Priest, [email protected]

Deacon David Palma, Pastoral Associate, [email protected]

Sr. Kathleen Wayne, RSM, Director of Faith Formation,

[email protected]

Susan Howard, Pastoral Associate, [email protected]

Mary Jo Lightholder, Director, Supper Program

[email protected]

Abby Cantello, Youth Minister, [email protected]

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Molly Hedges, Director of Finance, [email protected]

Diane Pawlik, Administrative Assistant, [email protected]

Kathy Marfione, Parish Communications, [email protected]

Emily Sinicropi , Bookkeeper, [email protected]

Chris Wilke, Maintenance Supervisor, [email protected]

PARISH MUSICIANS

Chelsea Barton, Director of Music, [email protected]

Margaret-Mary Owens, Associate Director of Music,

[email protected]

MAINTENANCE STAFF

Dave Bergeron, St. Boniface

Nick Caines, Blessed Sacrament

Walter Miller, St. Mary’s

Diane Kannel, Gardener, St. Mary’s

PARISH COLLECTION INFORMATION July 21, 2019 Actual Budget Variance Blessed Sacrament $ 6,939 $ 7,300 ($ 361) St. Boniface $ 3,184 $ 3,350 ($ 166) St. Mary’s $ 3,933 $ 5,400 ($ 1,467)

Year-to-Date Blessed Sacrament $ 20,856 $ 21,900 ($ 1,044) St. Boniface $ 8,974 $ 10,050 ($ 1,076) St. Mary’s $ 14,446 $ 16,200 ($ 1,754) Thank you for your faithful and generous support! We depend on your thoughtfulness and commitment. God bless you.

ATTENDANCE for July 20/21, 2019

Blessed Sacrament Seating Capacity—800 10:00a.m. Mass Attendance—306 12:15p.m. Mass Attendance—107 St. Boniface Seating Capacity—550 5:00p.m. Mass Attendance— 70 9:00a.m. Mass Attendance—114 St. Mary’s Seating Capacity—550 4:00p.m. Mass Attendance—86 10:30a.m. Mass Attendance—138

SAVE THE DATE ST. BONIFACE MEN’S CLUB ANNUAL

CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT Mark your calendars for the St. Boniface Men’s Club Annual Charity Golf Tournament, to be held on September 15 at Lima Country Club. The tournament starts at 12 noon with lunch and dinner included. More details will be available in the coming weeks!

GATEWAYS MUSIC FESTIVAL MUSICIANS TO VISIT ST. MARY’S

The mission of the Gateways Music Festival is to connect and support professional classical musicians of African descent and enlighten and inspire communities through the power of performance. These artists will be performing in Rochester at a variety of venues from August 6th through August 11th. Please see their website https://gatewaysmusicfestival.org/ for a full schedule of their performances. We at the Southeast Rochester Catholic Community are pleased to be one of their chosen venues! GMF is coming to our community on August 11th when we will welcome several of their musicians to St. Mary's Church. We will host these musicians who will perform a prelude of classical pieces preceding the 10:30 Mass beginning about 10 AM. They will also participate and enrich the music played during Mass. Please join us and tip-toe into church early! Also, among the sites where they will perform, there will be a symphony concert at Eastman Theatre that same evening, August 11, at 4pm.

BE A RAIHN-MAKER

(Rochester Area Interfaith Hospitality Network)

During RAIHN week August 11-18, 2019, our parishioners will join with members of the First Universalist Church in turning

their church into a home for temporarily homeless families. We will convert classrooms into bedrooms, cook meals, stay over and provide other help. If you would like to join our volunteer team please call Kathleen Little 585-338-2782 or email her at [email protected]. A new volunteer orientation will be held on Tuesday Aug. 6th at 6:30 p.m. at Church of Jesus Christ of LDS 1400 Westfall Rd., Rochester, N.Y. rsvp 585-506-9050. There are opportunities to shadow experienced volunteers. We need your help as a RAIHN-maker.

https://gatewaysmusicfestival.org/


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