MASS SCHEDULE

WEEK DAY MASSES: Monday—Friday

8:30AM in Mother Church

WEEKEND MASSES: Saturday 5PM in Large Church

Sunday 7:30AM in Mother Church 9AM, and 11:00AM in

Large Church

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION:

Saturday 4PM—4:30PM in Large Church

Monday 6:15PM—7:15PM in Mother Church

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION:

Monday 6PM—8PM in Mother Church

MIRACULOUS MEDAL NOVENA &

BENEDICTION: Monday 7:30—8PM

Mother Church

ROSARY: June 16 4:45pm Mother Church

June 12, 2016 Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

Lord, forgive the wrong I done (Psalm 32)

Our Lady of the Snow Catholic Church

175 Blue Point Avenue Blue Point, New York 11715

Telephone: 631-363-6385

Visitusonline!www.OurLadyofTheSnowBluePoint.com

It is Jesus you seek when you dream of happiness. He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you. He is the beauty to which you are attracted; it is He who provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise. It is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life. It is He who reads in your heart your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle. --Pope St. John Paul II

MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK June 13, 2016

Saints and Special Observances also indicated

Monday June 13, St. Anthony of Padua 8:30AM James & Eunice Bennedetto † Tuesday June 14, Flag Day 8:30AM Joyce Holst † Wednesday June 15, 8:30AM Fred Horstmann † Thursday June 16, 8:30AM John Gronenthal † Friday June 17, 8:30AM Fred Horstmann †

Saturday June 18, 5:00PM Edward Summers † Sunday June 19, 7:30AM Father’s Day Novena 9:00AM Parishioners 11:00AM Maxwell Henry Remmer † John & Jennie Petrizzi † Vito Liggio †

For all who have died this past week, that they rejoice in the heavenly banquet…

Mary Als & Frank Celentano

Pray for Our Sick

In Sympathy

We pray for all who are sick, for their healing in both body and spirit….

Major Meghan Ederle Capt Kyle Brown

Capt. Tara Brown Gomez Capt. Thomas Gomez

Lt. Jg Sean Brown 1/c Midshipman Shannon Brown

Army Specialist Justin Brown E3/ACAN Connor Rooney USN Capt. Dr. Kate Desmond-Baker

† MEMORIALS FOR THE WEEK † Altar Bread and Wine

In loving Memory of our Parishioners Sanctuary Candle in Mother Church

In loving Memory of our Parishioners

Wedding Banns

Matthew Hayden & Emily Giunta Jeff Collier & Julia Kaziewicz

Fabio Janeiro & Juliann Marinero Francesco Cuffaro & Ashley Hantzidinmantis

Did you know that June 20 – the first day of summer – is National eGiving Day?

Our Lady of the Snow can take particular joy in this celebration, as the response to eGiving

in our church has been wonderful.

To build on this success, I am setting a Nation-al eGiving Day Challenge. My goal is for Our

Lady of the Snow families to put envelopes on a permanent summer vacation and make the

switch to eGiving. This is especially important in the summer months, when many families may be out of town some weekends and Our

Lady of the Snow does not receive their enve-lopes. It’s easy for people to forget to catch

up once they’re back, and our weekly offerto-ry can fluctuate as a result – making it harder to predict how much we will have to sustain

our year-round ministries. The more families who welcome the beginning of summer by taking this National eGiving Day Challenge, the more consistency and predicta-ble our offertory will be month after month – and this will help us do even more to spread

Christ’s love throughout the community.

Being part of this challenge is simple: Visit www.faithdirect.net and use our church code:

NY235

Thank you for your continued support of our parish family with your time and talents as

well as treasure! God Bless You

A Message from Father Charles Fink Page 3

My dear parish family, When Peter Kreeft decided to write Prayer for Begginners, he built it around the teaching of Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection and that humble Carmelite’s little mas-terpiece, The Practice of the Presence of God. Now Kreeft has written a new book, this one called How to Be Holy: First Steps in Becoming a Saint, and bases this one largely on another small spiritual classic, Fr. Jean Pierre de Caussade’s Abandonment to Divine Providence. Kreeft begins by focusing on Fr. de Caussade’s reflections on Romans 8:28, St. Paul’s assertion that for those who love God, all things work for the good. Philosopher that he is, Kreeft demonstrates how and why this must be so and what the implications are for us, especially when we are in the throes of life’s trials. Peter Kreeft isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, as he is more a thinker than a feeler, more interested in informing than in touching us emotionally. He is a master of aphorism, but he goes on to explain what he means and why he means is, why it makes sense. His isn’t the world of sound-bites, two-minute analyses, or soaring rhetoric designed to move us to tears or applause, but he writes clearly and penetratingly, always in an illuminating way, often in a memorable way. This is the month of the Sacred Heart, one of the great Catholic symbols of God’s never-failing, unchanging love for us. That love, along with God’s power and wisdom, is the reason we ought to “abandon ourselves to Divine Providence,” surrender to God, trust always that if we love Him as best we can and are sorry for our sins, then He will make sure everything in our lives works for the good, especially the ultimate good of bringing us to eternal life. I know I must seem to spend an inordinate amount of time recommending books and urging you to read, but that’s because we need to feed our minds and hearts and souls with nourishing, life-sustaining food, given the toxic atmosphere in which we live. We have constantly to work at off-setting the deleterious effects of breathing in all the poisons spewed out by the media and our increasingly secular, materialistic, hedonistic, and nihil-istic society. The Sacred Heart of Jesus should be our comfort and strength each day but will be so only if that Heart is as real to us as all the things that impact our senses as we make our way thourgh life. Try one of Peter Kreeft’s little books, one of those mentioned above or Before I Go. All are short, all filled with wisdom and love, all designed to bring us closer to the Heart of Jesus and keep is safe in His embrace. With love and prayers, Fr. Charles Fink

Believing with Joy! Stewardship - A Way of Life

Mass

Attendance Envelopes $

Loose $

Total

5:00 pm 178 2570 294 2864

7:30 am 121 2099 519 2618

9:00 am 172 1732 299 2031

11:00 am 185 1640 425 2065

Total 656

8041 1537 9578

STEWARDSHIP FINANCIAL REPORT For the week of June 5-6, 2016

The Mercy of God and For-giveness Words to ponder and live from Pope Francis on to-day’s Gospel ,The Unforgiving servant, in Misericordiae Vultus (#9): “This parable contains a pro-found teaching for all of us. Je-sus affirms that mercy is not only

an action of the Father, it becomes a cri-terion for ascertaining who his true chil-dren are. Pardoning offences becomes the clearest expression of merciful love, and for us Christians it is an imperative from which we cannot excuse ourselves.

At times how hard it seems to forgive! And yet pardon is the instrument placed into our fragile hands to attain serenity of heart. To let go of anger, wrath, vio-lence, and revenge are necessary condi-tions to living joyfully.

He (God) does not limit himself merely to affirming his love, but makes it visible and tangible shown in daily living. The mercy of God is his loving concern for each one of us.

He feels responsible; that is, he desires our wellbeing and he wants to see us happy, full of joy, and peaceful. This is the path which the merciful love of Christians must also travel. As the Father loves, so do his children. Just as he is merciful, so we are called to be merciful to each oth-er”

Virtus Training for all Staff and Volunteers

Virtus Training is being offered here at Our Lady of the Snow Parish on June 14 at 10 a.m. and June 16 at 7 p.m., in the Large Church. ALL VOL-UNTEERS and staff members must complete this training. To register go to the Diocese of Rockville Centre website, look for this logo and follow the prompts. Online registration is required

ANNIVERSARY UPDATE!

Our “Town Hall” Meeting to discuss plans for our 100th anniversary will be held on September 20, 2016. Hold this date and be part of the planning for this historic event! 

We are compiling an Our Lady of the Snow Cook Book. Please email your recipes to ourladyofthesnowbp@gmail.com.

We are blessed with great cooks and bakers , let’s make this cook book as good

as our first one!

We are putting together a Family Parish Directory with the pictures of our parish

family- a family album if you wish! All you have to do is show up in September with

your family and say “CHEESE”! You will receive an 8x10 portrait, a free directory for

participating, and the opportunity to pur-chase other picture packages. Portraits will

be taken from September 18 to 24, stay tuned for times and the location.

Please email parish photos to be considered for our Cook Book and Parish Directory!

WHAT CATHOLICS BELIEVE; WHY THEY BELIEVE IT

1. WHY DO WE BELIEVE IN GOD?

Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, in-visible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made (Romans 1:20). Rare is the person who has not looked up at a starry sky or a sunset or the sea and thought: This is the work of a Supreme Artist. The beauty of the world has al-ways spoken to people of something or someone beyond this world. Likewise the orderliness of the universe, the compatibility and complementarities of its parts, has induced many to conclude that it is the product of intelligent design. Ironically, science, which is only possible because the universe exhibits such law-like order, has been the cause of much unbelief in the last two centuries. It is argued, e.g., that evolution accounts for all the things former ages in their igno-rance attributed to God. This line of reasoning, however, does not really bear much scrutiny. Evolution, the theory that the chance interaction of material elements, has re-sulted in the world we know, may be able to explain how “A” has turned into “B” and “B” into “C”, but it has nothing whatever to say about why “A” exists in the first place, nor why in the first place is such as to have the remarkable capacity to turn into “B”. In fact, scientists tell us that at their beginning, just before the so-called Big-Bang, the constituents of the universe were so finely tuned that if any one of them had been different in the least degree, the world as we know it, includ-ing human life, could never have come to be. In other words, the universe gives the appearance of being a meticulously prepared recipe. Think of the material world as a deck of cards. It is true that many games of chance can be played with this deck, and chance can explain why we are dealt one hand rather than another, but the chances are strictly limited and circumscribed by the fact that the cards themselves have been carefully designed and have very spe-cific characteristics. It may be that God chose to use evolution as the mechanism for producing most of what we see in the universe, but evolution alone cannot explain the exist-ence of the universe in the first place, nor its capacity from the start to evolve into the masterpiece we behold when we look at anything from the cosmos as a whole to a single living cell. It is all God-created, God-designed.

OUR LADY OF THE SNOW RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OFFICE 363-6394 olsbpre@aol.com

Office Hours: Mon. to Thurs. 9:30—4:30 or by appointment The ministry of Religious Education strives to bring all into a closer relationship with Jesus

Week of June 12

Level 9 Confirmation Parent/Child Meeting Tues. June 14 at 7:30pm Wed June 22 at 7:30pm

This is a mandatory meeting. We will outline the Confirmation

Program expectations and requirements . Materials (including the NEW Sponsor Forms) will

be distributed.

Level 6 Faith Conversations If your child was unable to participate in the Dioce-

san mandated Faith Conversations please call or email the Religious Education Office to make an appointment. Copies of the questions are on the

parish website or hard copies are on the backstairs of the office (blue sheets)

HOME STUDY

All Home Study Chapter Review Sheets should have been returned to the Religious Education Of-fice. Students will not be able to move up to the

next level until the Home Study work is completed and received.

Children Entering 1st Grade—Sept 2016 should be registered in the Religious Education Program. Participation in Level 1 is the first level of the Di-ocesan mandated 2 year preparation program

for the Sacraments of Reconciliation and Eucharist. Registration forms can be found on the parish web-site or on the backstairs of the Religious Education Office and should be returned to the Religious Edu-

cation Office as soon as possible

REGISTRATION Registration is now

complete. If you have not registered please drop your

forms off at the Re-ligious Education Office as soon as

possible. If no catechist is available at registration the child

will be placed on a waiting list. Children on a wait-ing list will be placed in order as catechists become

available. If no catechist is available by start of classes in Oc-

tober children will be placed in the Home Study Program.

VIRTUS Training

This is a Diocesan Training for all ministers of the Church on the Protection of Children.

We will be offering this training here at Our Lady of the Snow on:

Tues. June 14 Large Church 10am-Noon Thurs. June 16 Large Church 7-9pm

Register online at DRVC.org. Click on VIRTUS Online and follow the instructions to register here

or at another parish. Catechists Needed

Level 2—needs 1 Catechist Level 3—needs 3Catechists Level 4—needs 8 Catechists Level 5—needs 4 Catechists Level 6—needs 2 Catechists

***Level 7—0 Catechists *** Level 8—needs 3 Catechists Level 9—needs 5 Catechists

Is God Calling You??? We are preparing for next year’s program. Please

consider sharing your Catholic faith with the children of the parish.

Call or email the Religious Education Office for more information.

RESPECT LIFE MINISTRY “Grace is participation in the very presence of God”. – (Mother Angelica) “

June 10th- Friday, Respect Life General Meeting @2PM in Cottage June 11th- Saturday, Prayer Presence @ Planned Parenthood – Waverly Av just North of Sunrise High way on the west side @ 10:30AM to11:30AM June 21st- Tuesday – July 4 Monday is the 5th Annual “Fortnight for Free dom” – a campaign initiated by the Catholic bishops of US which consists of 14 days of PRAYER, EDUCATION & ACTION for religious freedom. July 1- Friday “Face the Truth” @ LIE Exit 70 South & Cty Rd 111, Manorville 2:30-4:00PM

INSPIRATIONAL FAMILY VIEWING (Borrow from your library)

“Miracle” “Seabiscuit”

GREAT CATHOLIC TELEVISION

STATIONS: Telecare – channel 29 EWTN – channel 135

Websites;

www.CHS.org www.silentnomore.org

www.usccb.org www.respectlife.dvrc.org

Now and at the Hour of

Our Death A Catholic guide to

End-of-Life Decision-Making

Continue from May 8th—But as is the case at times with life-sustaining treatments, medically assisted nutrition and hydration, although constituting a form of ordinary care, may, under very specific circum-stances, be deemed excessively burdensome and of little or no benefit to the patient. The most common case of this is when the patient enters into the dying process and the body can no longer properly assimi-late food and water, even through a tube. When death is imminent (within days) or in rare instances when a gastric feeding tube may cause intractable side effects such as severe agitation, physical dis-comfort, aspiration into the lungs, or severe infec-tion, any foreseeable benefits of maintaining the tube are likely outweighed in light of the attending burdens, in this case, other means of providing nutri-tion or if not feasible, at least hydration, even if min-imally, must be carefully considered and employed if possible. When medically assisted nutrition and hydra-tion is withheld or withdrawn for licit reasons, death occurs as a result of the underlying disease, not through starvation or dehydration. It is never permissible to remove a feeding tube, or any form of life-sustaining treatment, based on a belief that the patient’s life not longer holds va-le or with the intention to terminate the patient’s life. —by the Catholic Bishops of New York State

Parish Outreach Office # 363-2417 Hours 10:00am - 1:00 pm Monday - Thursday

PARISH OUTREACH FUNDRAISER 2016

Your neighbors depend on our food pantry. They are the disabled, the seniors on fixed in-

comes, the newly unemployed, the underemployed, single parents and hard-working families who

struggle to pay for food and basic needs for their children and themselves.

Please support our 2016 Fundraiser the

SPLIT-THE-POT Raffle.

The Split the Pot this year will follow the same pattern established in the past. Half of the proceeds will go directly to Our Lady of the Snow Outreach and the other half will be split among three winners. The drawing

will be on Sunday, June 26th, after the 11:00 am Mass. The winner does not need to be present.

Please use the attached tickets.

(Six) tickets at $5.00 each, or $25.00 for the booklet of all six.

(1 free!) Tickets may be returned to the Rectory or Outreach office. They may also be mailed

to the Outreach office at 175 Blue Point Av-enue, Blue Point, New York 11715

Thank you for your support of our pro-gram, and helping those in need.

*Certain gambling winnings will require a W-2G form.

40 years (1976-2016) of assisting those in

need in our community

**FOOD PANTRY ALERT** Due to these tough economic times, we are

helping an increased number of our neighbors in need.

The Pantry is in need of the following: *** Indicate we are very low in supply Coffee, tea and milk*** Cereal , hot and cold Crackers Spinach Jelly *** Mayonnaise*** Instant and canned potatoes *** Canned Chicken*** Stew*** Toothpaste *** Laundry detergent*** Peas Carrots Canned Spinach Mixed vegetables Juice*** Soap*** Body wash Deodorant*** Macaroni & Cheese Chili*** Ketchup*** Conditioner Rice Cat and Dog Food*** Cleaning supplies Pancake Mix King Kullen gift cards $10*** Baby wipes**** Cake mix*** Cookies***

We have a good supply of pasta and soup now, please refer to the list above for what we are in need of. Thanks.

Drawing to be held on Sunday, June 26, 2016

Our Lady of the Snow Church 3 Lucky Winners

To Benefit the food pantry and Outreach program

Name: _______________________________________________

Address: _____________________________________________

Phone: _______________________________________________ Donation of $5 or 6 for $25

Return to Parish Outreach 175 Blue Point Ave

Blue Point NY 11715

Drawing to be held on Sunday, June 26, 2016 Our Lady of the Snow Church

3 Lucky Winners To Benefit the food pantry and Outreach program

Name: _______________________________________________

Address: _____________________________________________

Phone: _______________________________________________ Donation of $5 or 6 for $25

Return to Parish Outreach 175 Blue Point Ave

Blue Point NY 11715

Drawing to be held on Sunday, June 26, 2016 Our Lady of the Snow Church

3 Lucky Winners To Benefit the food pantry and Outreach program

Name: _______________________________________________

Address: _____________________________________________

Phone: _______________________________________________ Donation of $5 or 6 for $25

Return to Parish Outreach 175 Blue Point Ave

Blue Point NY 11715

Drawing to be held on Sunday, June 26, 2016

Our Lady of the Snow Church 3 Lucky Winners

To Benefit the food pantry and Outreach program

Name: _______________________________________________

Address: _____________________________________________

Phone: _______________________________________________ Donation of $5 or 6 for $25

Return to Parish Outreach 175 Blue Point Ave

Blue Point NY 11715

Drawing to be held on Sunday, June 26, 2016 Our Lady of the Snow Church

3 Lucky Winners To Benefit the food pantry and Outreach program

Name: _______________________________________________

Address: _____________________________________________

Phone: _______________________________________________ Donation of $5 or 6 for $25

Return to Parish Outreach 175 Blue Point Ave

Blue Point NY 11715

Drawing to be held on Sunday, June 26, 2016 Our Lady of the Snow Church

3 Lucky Winners To Benefit the food pantry and Outreach program

Name: _______________________________________________

Address: _____________________________________________

Phone: _______________________________________________ Donation of $5 or 6 for $25

Return to Parish Outreach 175 Blue Point Ave

Blue Point NY 11715

Rite of Christian Initiation (R.C.I.A.) Persons interested in becoming Catholic and adults

who have not received Confirmation or First Eucharist, please contact Beth Rivalsi at 363-2416.

Marriage: Arrangements must be made at least six to twelve

months in advance. It is advisable to call the church prior to

arranging the reception.

Baptisms Are celebrated on the second Saturday and

fourth Sunday of most months. Please visit our website at for complete information

New parishioners Please register at the parish or call 363-

6385, ext. 110 for information.

Communion for the Homebound:

To make arrangements to have Communion brought to the home, please call the parish office at 363-6385, ext. 110. For emergency sick calls, please call the parish at

any time.

Catholic Marriage for couples married

outside the Church If you have a civil marriage but now desire a Catholic sacramental marriage, call the Rectory for more infor-mation about a Convalidation .Convalidation is having a couple’s marriage recognized and blessed by the Church through the Catholic Rite of Marriage  

The Pastoral Team Clergy

Rev. Edward R. D’Andrea, Pastor Deacon Frank Hartmann Rev. Msgr. Charles Fink, Parish Administrator Deacon Edward Karan Rev. John Amoah, Associate Pastor Deacon Bob Gronenthal

Parish Office: 363-6385 — Fax: 363-7394 Hours: Mon –Fri 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Saturday 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Mrs. Lindsay Butler, Parish Asst., ext. 111; Mrs. Loraine Gonzalez, . Asst., ext. 110

ourladyofthesnowbp@gmail.com

Religious Education: 363-6394 Monday – Thursday 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. & 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m Mrs. Patricia Bartoldus, Director of Faith Formation, ; Mrs. Eileen Mulry, Secretary, ext.115

olsbpre@aol.com

Faith Formation for Adults: 363-2416 Mrs. Beth Rivalsi, Director of Faith Formation for Adults olsbeth@aol.com

Parish Outreach: 363-2417 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Monday - Thursday in the cottage

Mrs. Diana Mongan, Director ; Mrs. Patricia Fulco, Outreach Assistant olsoutreach@yahoo.com

Director of Music, Mrs. Theresa Martin

Respect Life Ministry , Mrs. Jean Delaney Coordinator 631 472-0033

A little humor from Father Fink

Supposedly true story: A man in a rural area called the town office to request the removal of a “Deer Crossing” sign. His reason? He said too many deer were getting hit by cars at that spot; it wasn’t a good place for them to cross.

BRICK MEMORIAL GARDEN

Maybe you have noticed the work we have done in front of the Mother Church. If you would like to memorialize a loved

one , a family member or add your family name, please stop by the rectory office

during business hours. The bricks are $100 each.