MASS INTENTIONS
Saturday June 6
5:00 PM Donald Albertell
Sunday June 7
8:00AM Living & Deceased Parishioners
10:30 AM Alfonso & Leone Forgione
12:00 PM Steven Wettje
6:00 PM Constantino Elias
Antonio Forgione
Monday June 8
10:00 AM ---
Tuesday June 9
10:00 AM Angelo D'Antona
Wednesday June 10
10:00 AM Ralph Pantaleone
Thursday June 11
10:00 AM Haleem Abe Kharma
Friday June 12
10:00 AM Antonietta & Alessandro
Roviezzo & Concetta Barbato
7:30 PM ----
Saturday June 13
10:00 AM Giuseppina, Carmina, Maria
& Antonetta Luongo
5:00 PM Sister Monica Quigley
Sunday June 14
8:00AM Yolanda & Thomas Monteforte
10:30 AM Carmela Lana
12:00 PM Anthony Candido
Living & Deceased Parishioners
6:00 PM The Tiglio & Eckhardt
Families
St Joseph's Candle
In memory of Joseph Cardinale
Happy Feast of St. Anthony of Padua!!
LIVE-STREAMING SCHEDULE*
Monday – Friday
10:00 am Mass
3:00 pm Divine Mercy Chaplet
7:30 pm Mass
8:00 pm Holy Hour/Exposition
Saturdays
10:00 am Mass
3:00 pm Divine Mercy Chaplet
5:00 pm Mass
8:00 pm Holy Hour/Exposition
Sunday
8:00 am Mass
10:30 am Mass
3:00 pm Divine Mercy Chaplet
12:00 pm Mass
6:00 pm Mass
8:00 pm Holy Hour/Exposition
* The Church is open for private prayer from 9 am - 9 pm each day but not during the times when we are live-streaming.
Novena to St. Anthony
Live-streaming Schedule:
Day 1 Friday June 5th: 7:15 pm
Day 2 Saturday June 6th: 7:45 pm
Day 3 Sunday June 7th: 7:45 pm
Day 4 Monday June 8th: 7:15 pm
Day 5 Tuesday June 9th: 7:15 pm
Day 6 Wednesday June 10th: 7:15 pm
Day 7 Thursday June 11th: 7:15 pm
Day 8 Friday June 12th: 7:15 pm
Day 9 Saturday June 13th: 10:30 am
Financial Report
Income for the Week of May 31, 2020
$4,669.00
Cardinal's Appeal
Goal: $76,000.00
Pledged: $64,956.56
Paid: $50,346.56
Thank you for supporting your parish!
Most Holy Trinity Sunday
June 7, 2020
First Reading: Exodus 34:4b‑6, 8‑9
The Lord appears to Moses on Mount Sinai and proclaims to him that he Lord is a “merciful God...slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity.”
Second Reading: 2 Corinthians 13:11‑13
Paul exhorts the Corinthians to live in peace and harmony, and for the first time, invokes the Blessed Trinity.
Gospel: John 3:16‑18
In this beautiful passage, Jesus tells Nicodemus that God loved his people so much that he “gave his only son.” Jesus reveals to Nicodemus that anyone who believes in him will not die but will enjoy life with him for all eternity.
The Lord appears to Moses on Mount Sinai and proclaims to him that he Lord is a “merciful God...slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity.”
Second Reading: 2 Corinthians 13:11‑13
Paul exhorts the Corinthians to live in peace and harmony, and for the first time, invokes the Blessed Trinity.
Gospel: John 3:16‑18
In this beautiful passage, Jesus tells Nicodemus that God loved his people so much that he “gave his only son.” Jesus reveals to Nicodemus that anyone who believes in him will not die but will enjoy life with him for all eternity.
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When can we come back to church?
Well, it looks like churches may be open for Mass sooner than expected! I just received an email from the Archdiocese yesterday late afternoon communicating that places of worship have been included in phase two of the New York State plan for reopening. Respecting social distancing and other precautions, up to 25% of occupancy is permitted (an upgrade from a limitation of a maximum of ten people). The Cardinal will be providing specific information very soon as to a date for when we can start welcoming people back. We have ordered wall-mounted sanitizer dispensers and disinfectant solution to sanitize the seats, doorknobs, etc. in-between Masses. Hopefully they will arrive very soon. The parish office will be slightly modified with a sheet of plexiglass to serve as a protective barrier and signage will be posted around the property to facilitate proper movement in and out of buildings. We will most likely be making use of a new feature in Flocknotes called "Signup" which will allow you to make a reservation for Mass very easily. I am looking for volunteers to assist with sanitizing the church in-between Masses once we are able to have everyone back. I would advise, based on medical data related to the coronavirus, that only those in the lower risk category of under 60 volunteer for this. Please sign-up by leaving a voicemail message at the parish office at (914) 948-1480 or by sending us an email at admin@sapwh.org. I will keep you posted of any updates! --- Fr. Tom
Pastor's Note for Trinity Sunday:
May the Lord give you His peace.
When we hear the name “Holy Trinity” in reference to God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, what is being described is a Holy Family or a Holy Communion. The Trinity is a family of Persons loving each other so perfectly, so totally, and so unconditionally that the Trinity is a unity. Three Persons are one God. In the Book of Genesis we read that God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, after our likeness.” (Genesis 1:26) What this means is that we were created to be a part of this very relationship! We are here on this earth to choose God and to learn to live in God. There is another way of wording this. We are here on earth to choose love and to live in love. This love has a name: The Most Holy Trinity.
It is not so easy to live this kind of Trinitarian love in the world. Yet, as individuals, families, communities, countries, and as a world, we were created for this. This may seem next to impossible as we take-in all of the news reports about all of the division in our world. Thankfully, Jesus offered us a way to begin living in this Trinitarian love right now. He taught us to recognize that we are all God’s children when He taught us to call God our Father when we pray. He taught us that unity is won by forgiveness not vengeance. He taught us to love our neighbor with all of our heart even if it means laying down our lives for the sake of another like the soldiers at Normandy whom we remember this weekend in honor of D-Day.
The evil one is at work spreading seeds of hatred and enmity. He works very hard to create division not only among ourselves but within ourselves. How many of us at times will share or say, “I feel so conflicted,” or “I am just so divided over this.” This a consequence of original sin. We lost that original unity when the darkness of sin entered into the heart of humanity. St. Paul describes this disunity as a kind of division between the flesh and the spirit. We read in St. Paul’s letter to the Galatians: “For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do what you want.” (Galatians 5:17) For example, we sometimes choose to do something even when we know it offends God. But there is hope. In the same letter to the Galatians, Saint Paul counsels us to live in the Spirit and we will overcome the flesh.
As we allow God to heal the divisions within us through His mercy and love, we are able to participate more fully and completely in Trinitarian unity. This is how the saints like St. Francis of Assisi and our own patron, St. Anthony of Padua, maintained such peace in their hearts no matter what was happening around them in the world. God protected their hearts from the darkness without through His light within. How can that happen for us, especially with all that is going on in our world these days? Prayer is the key. Imagine how differently each of us might respond and therefore, how different the world would be, if everyone simply prayed first. When we pray, we are putting God first. We are opening our hearts to His will and His way. By doing this as St. Paul teaches us, “I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me; insofar as I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who has loved me and given himself up for me.” (Galatians 2:20)
When we live as St. Paul teaches, we participate in Trinitarian love as a unique member of the Body of Christ. Similar to how the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit carryout their respective roles as Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier while remaining one God, we live in Christ in the way that each part of the body has a unique role or function. In other words, “There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit; there are different forms of service but the same Lord; there are different workings but the same God who produces all of them in everyone. To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit.” (1 Corinthians 12:4-7) As individuals and as a community, it would be good for us to prayerfully discern how God is asking us to go about the work of building His kingdom of Trinitarian love, especially when faced with the brokenness caused by discrimination, injustice, hatred, racism, violence, and the many other manifestations of a culture of death. In the end, there is no greater protest of this culture of death and no greater yes to a life of Trinitarian love than to live Christ. This is described very beautifully and powerfully in the Prayer of St. Francis: “Where there is hatred let me bring your love, where there is injury, your pardon Lord and where there's doubt, true faith in you…where there's despair in life let me bring hope, where there is darkness, only light and where there's sadness ever joy.”
In prayer,
Your local shepherd,
Fr. Tom
