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Rev. Robert Abbatiello, OFM. Cap.
Pastor – [email protected]
Rev. John McHugh, OFM Cap.
Associate Pastor – [email protected]
Deacon Gianni DiPaolo
Br. Roger Deguire, OFM Cap.
Parish Associate – [email protected]
Weekend Associates
Rev. Michael Connolly, OFM Cap.
Rev. Senan Taylor, OFM Cap.
Mrs. Deanne May
Office Manager/Religious Education Coordinator
Mr. Andrew Bauer
Music Director – [email protected]
110 Shonnard Pl., Yonkers, NY 10703
www.sacredheartyonkers.org
-A Ministry of the Capuchins of the Province of Saint Mary-
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
Wednesday, 6:30 - 7:00 p.m. (Church)
Saturday, 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. (Chapel Reconciliation Room)
(Other times: by appointment, call the Parish Office)
NOVENAS
Miraculous Medal - Monday following 8:30 a.m. Mass
Our Mother of Perpetual Help - Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
Adoration - See Bulletin
Baptisms
Baptisms are usually celebrated on the last
Sunday of the month at 1:00 p.m.
Contact the Parish Office for information.
Marriages
Couples should contact the Parish Office
before setting their wedding date.
Please contact the Parish Office upon engagement;
wedding preparation usually takes at least six months.
Care of the Sick
Please contact the Parish Office when
serious illness or hospitalization occurs.
Anointing of the Sick and regular Communion Visits
can be scheduled.
Family Closet Thrift Shop
Saturdays 10:00 - 2:00 Please use entrance in back of High School under Breezeway.
Food Pantry
Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:00 - 3:00
Parish Offices
40 Convent Ave., Yonkers, NY 10703
Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Parish Offices: 963-4205 ∙ Fax: 476-4960
Schools: Elementary: 963-5318 ∙ High: 965-3114
SCHEDULE OF MASSES
Sunday Vigil
4:00 p.m.
1st, 3rd and 5th Saturday, Finian Sullivan Tower
2nd and 4th Saturday, Monastery Manor
5:00 p.m. Church
Sunday
8:00, 9:45 and 11:30 a.m.
Weekday
Monday - Friday, 6:45 a.m.
Monday - Saturday, 8:30 a.m.
Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.
Holy Day Schedule
Please consult the Bulletin.
March 15th – March 22nd
Sunday, March 15th - Third Sunday of Lent
Ex 17:3-7/Rom 5:1-2,5-8/Jn 4:5-42
5:00pm Vigil Decd Landy & Anderson Families 8:00am Decd James J. Ryan & Family
9:45am Decd Eileen Hoyt-Mahan (1st Anni)
11:30am Decd Raymond & Catherine Fallon 7:00 pm Sp Int Young Adults of the Parish
Monday, March 16th - 2 Kgs 5:1-15b/Lk 4:24-30
6:45 Decd Michael Courtien (Anni)
8:30 Decd Patrick & Agnes Fitzgerald
Tuesday, March 17th - St. Patrick Dn 3:25,34-43/Mt 18:21-35 6:45 Sp Int 8:30 Decd Nora & Thomas Dunn Wednesday, March 18th - Dt 4:1,5-9/Mt 5:17-19
6:45 Sp Int
8:30 Decd Burke, Fennessey, Ganley &
Pisarchik Families 7:30pm Decd Loughran Family
Thursday, March 19th - 2 Sm 6:45 Decd Joan Leininger 8:30 Decd Pat Maskara & Ted O’Lear Friday, March 20th - Gn 37:3-4,12-13a, 17b-28a/Mt 21:33-43,45-46 6:45 Sp Int 8:30 Decd Carroll McGrath
Saturday, March 21st -
Mt 7:14-15,18-20/Lk 15:1-3,11-32 8:30 Decd Keating Family
Sunday, March 22nd - Third Sunday of Lent
Ex 17:3-7/Rom 5:1-2,5-8/Jn 4:5-42
5:00pm Vigil Decd Porzio & Juliano Families
8:00am Decd James Williams
9:45am Decd Faustino Munis 11:30am Decd Steven Ray Myers
Week of March 15th
Bread & Wine
Decd Thomas Dunn
Sanctuary Lamp Decd Thomas Dunn
STEWARDSHIP OF GOD’S BLESSINGS
March 8, 2020……….….……………………….$6,496.95
On-line Giving…………….…………...….…...…$976.29
Total…………………………………………...….$7,473.24
Last Year Total ….….……….………….………$7,263.27
Thank you for your continued support of our parish
and its many needs.
May God bless your generosity to Sacred Heart! ________________________________________
To register for on-line giving,
please go to our website
sacredheartyonkers.org
scroll down on right hand side to
Parish Giving
and follow the online prompts.
Please Pray
for the repose of the souls of
Claire Gebhardt, Reyna Cabrera
and all the deceased parishioners of Sacred Heart,
and the Special Intentions of
Our Parish Family members,
listed in our Prayer Intention Book.
The Week Ahead…..
Sunday, March 15th
Religious Ed 10:45 am
Tribute to Fr. Bernard Concert 3:00 pm Young Adult Mass 7:00 pm
Monday, March 16th
Miraculous Medal Novena following 8:30 am Mass
Tuesday, March 17th
Padre Pio Rosary 7:30 pm
Wednesday, March 18th Our Mother of Perpetual Help Rosary & Novena 6:30 pm
First Eucharist Parent Meeting 7:00 pm
Thursday, March 19th
Adoration 3:30 - 6:45 pm, Benediction 6:45 pm
Lenten Reflection (part 2) 7:00 pm
Friday, March 20th Soup and Stations 11:45/12:30
Hosted by Holy Name
Saturday, March 21st
Lectio Divina 9:15 am
Sunday, March 22nd
Religious Ed 10:45 am First Eucharist Parent Meeting 11:00 am
Yonkers St. Patrick’s Parade Cancellation
Dear Friends of the Yonkers St. Patrick’s
Day Parade on McLean:
It is with an abundance of caution and care
for our community, and as a result of medical advice
in the midst of this health crisis that we have made
the difficult decision to postpone the 2020 Yonkers
St Patrick's Day Parade from March 21st to Septem-
ber 19th, the halfway to St Patrick's day point.
The Mass will be celebrated on September 19th
before the parade.
Our first commitment is to the safety of both our
marchers and our spectators and we look forward to
celebrating this great parade six months from now.
We will hold the parade dinner on Saturday,
September 12th instead of this Saturday, March 14th.
This was an extremely difficult decision for us and
we ask that you look forward to September and stay
safe and well.
Sincerely,
The executive board of the Yonkers St Patrick's Day
Parade.
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High School News
Congratulations to our Varsity Girls who clinched the
GCHSAA Class “C” City Championship on March 5,
in an exciting battle against Dominican Academy.
Sophomore Kyla M. scored her 1,000th point in
exciting fashion, tying the game with a set of free
throws. Kyla led the team with 34 points, followed by
Gaby S. with 10, Jessie D. with 6, & Emily C. with 5.
WAY TO GO LADIES!
A Little Goes a Long Way! As we continue the journey of Lent 2020, Week III, allow me to invite you to reflect on a simple phrase or two
from the Sacred Scriptures each day. As I have already mentioned several times, some of us set out on strenuous Lenten
disciplines which we may not always be able to complete. Like a little yeast which leavens a whole batch of dough,
allow a small part of God’s Word to touch your heart and resonate in your mind throughout the day. Perhaps begin and
end your day reading the same verse or two and look for evidence from the day’s activities of the ways in which you
experienced and lived God’s Word.
Monday, March 16 – Hosea 11:5-7
Tuesday, March 17 – Jeremiah 2:10-13
Wednesday, March 18 – Isaiah 1:2-5
Thursday, March 19 – Psalm 81:11-16
Friday, March 20 – Psalm 25:8-12
Saturday, March 21 – Sirach 17:24-26
Sunday, March 22 – Ezekiel 11:19-20
Cardinal’s Annual Stewardship Campaign – Ongoing Last weekend we conducted the in pew phase of this year’s Cardinal’s Annual Stewardship Campaign. We
recognize that a number of parishioners have already responded by mail and have made pledges which they will fulfill
over the next several months. Others have completed a pledge envelope and have either put it in the offertory (last week
or this week) while still others have sent their pledge in the mail.
On behalf of all those recipients of your kind generosity, may I offer you a most sincere and humble word of
gratitude. We never know how our contributions and gifts, put together with many others, will effect positively those in
need. God bless you!
Stay Tuned! There are several positions that will be opening for membership on the Parish Council. We will look for
interested parishioners to fill those roles…maybe you?
Fr. Bob
PLEASE HELP US!
Please remember that we all need to do our part to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, which has
really taken hold throughout Westchester County. Please practice good health hygiene by washing your
hands regularly with soap or water or using an alcohol based sanitizer (if you can find any!) Sneeze or
cough into your elbow, not your hand, discard used tissues immediately.
Remember we are stressing that in place of a handshake during the sign of peace that we wave, nod, or
smile.
Reception of the Lord’s Precious Blood from common communion cups has been suspended.
It is preferred that the Lord’s Body be received in the hands rather than on the tongue at this time.
We plan to sanitize the doors and pews of the church several times a week. You may find the
church locked for this cleaning…so please be prepared and patient if you find the church closed
unexpectedly for cleaning and disinfecting. This is for everyone’s safety.
From the Pastor’s Desk 3rd Sunday of Lent: The Gift of Life-Giving Water
For a moment, try to imagine being in the sandals of the woman of Samaria. What response might we have
given to Jesus who asks for a drink? She didn’t know who he was and certainly couldn’t imagine why he, a Jew, would
be asking her, a Samaritan woman, for a drink. As the conversation goes on, Jesus tells her, “whoever drinks the water I
shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
Naturally, the woman asks for this water – which is not available from just any bucket dropped in just any well!
In asking the Samaritan woman for a drink, Jesus did something that was rather important. He admitted needing
her to have his thirst satisfied. This would have been uncommon and unlikely for the reasons mentioned above.
However, engaging the woman in this dialogue, Jesus opens up the conversation to her deeper thirst and desire for God.
Like the disciples in the gospel passage last Sunday, who were changed as they spent time with Jesus at the moment of
his Transfiguration, this woman, too, is changed by her experience of Jesus. Just as the disciples went down the
mountain and continued their work of evangelization and healing, encouraged by Jesus not to be afraid, so, too, this
woman goes to the people in her town and shares with them her experience of Jesus and “many of the Samaritans of that
town began to believe in him because of the word of the woman who testified…” They went to Jesus and invited him to
stay with them. After listening to Jesus for two more days, the townspeople came to believe in him because of his word,
saying to the woman, “We no longer believe because of your word; for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that
this is truly the Savior of the world.”
There is a lot for us to reflect on as we consider this passage. Maybe even too much for one sitting! But at least
let us consider the following:
What is the life-giving water that I thirst for?
If not to Jesus, to whom or to what do I go in search of it?
Who have I brought to Jesus by my testimony of faith? (See “Room for More” below.)
Like John the Baptist, this woman made a connection between others and Jesus and then “got out of the way!”
How have I led others to Jesus, whom have I led to Jesus, and how have I stepped out of the way so that their friendship
may grow and become strong?
May this Third Week of Lent be a source of many blessings for you, your loved ones, and all those you will
invite to the Lord.
Room for More… Each weekend, I am so grateful for the many parishioners who faithfully attend Mass here at Sacred Heart. I
can’t help but notice that each weekend there are also a few new faces in the assembly. How wonderful and great that
we are blessed with a good number of visitors and new residents to Yonkers. I also see that there is room for more
people at each Mass – and so I am once again asking all of us to make a very concerted, prayer-based, faith-motivated
effort to extend the invitation to others we see in our apartment buildings, in our neighborhood, in the markets, the park,
the highways and byways (as the Scriptures call them) to join us for the celebration of Holy Mass each weekend. The
Mass attendance did drop this year over last year and yet our parish remains vibrant and vital. There is always room for
more at our liturgical and sacramental celebrations.
Therefore, perhaps as a special Lenten sacrifice or offering, I invite you once again to be that special invitation
to someone who may be waiting for you to deliver it! You never know…Thank you for accepting the mission of
evangelizing and bringing others to the Lord. May we bring many souls to God!
Continued on previous page
Fr. Bernard Smith, O.F.M. Cap.
10th Anniversary Memorial Concert
TODAY: March 15th
3:00 PM
Suggested Donation: $25.
Champagne Reception to follow in the Church Hall
