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Bronx, New York

VIGIL HOLY MASS (SATURDAY-April 8th)

5:30 p.m. - Albanian 7:00 p.m. - English

PALM SUNDAY-April 9th 8:00 a.m. – Italian (Church)

9:00 a.m. - Spanish (Auditorium) 9:15 a.m. - English (Church)

10:30 a.m. - English (Church) 12:00 p.m. - English (Church)

12:00 p.m. - Spanish (Auditorium) 1:30 p.m. - Albanian (Church)

2:00 p.m. - Spanish (Auditorium)

HOLY THURSDAY - April 13th 9:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer (Church) 7:00 p.m. - Celebration of the Lord’s Supper (Church) 8:30 p.m.-12 a.m. - Transfer and Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament (Auditorium)

GOOD FRIDAY-April 14th

9:00 a.m. - Tenebrae Service 12:00 p.m. - Stations of the Cross

3:00 p.m. - Celebration of the Lord’s Passion (English) 5:00 p.m. - Celebration of the Lord’s Passion (Spanish)

HOLY SATURDAY April 15th

9:00am

Tenebrae Service

2:00pm - 4:00pm (School)

Blessing of the Food

EASTER VIGIL-April 15th

7:30 p.m. (Church)

EASTER SUNDAY-April 16th

8:00 a.m. - Italian 9:00 a.m. - Spanish (Auditorium)

9:15 a.m. - English (Church) 10:30 a.m. - English (Church) 12:00 p.m. - English (Church)

12:00 p.m. - Spanish (Auditorium) 1:30 p.m. - Albanian (Church)

2:00 p.m. - Spanish (Auditorium)

Monday - April 10th

Confessions - 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT - APRIL 2, 2017

SAT. APRIL 8th – SUN. APRIL 9th

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Monday- April 3, 2017 - Lenten Weekday

8:00 a.m. Frank Nardi 9:00 a.m. Pashko Haxhari

Tuesday- April 4, 2017 - Lenten Weekday - St.

Isidore, Bishop and Doctor of the Church 8:00 a.m. All Souls 9:00 a.m. Almas del Pulgatorio

Wednesday- April 5, 2017 - Lenten Weekday - St.

Vincent Ferrer, Priest 8:00 a.m. Benedetto & Elvira Piccolino 9:00 a.m. Special Intention

Thursday- April 6, 2017 - Lenten Weekday

8:00 a.m. Angela Troia 9:00 a.m. Michael Russo 7:00 p.m. Herminia Ortiz

Friday- April 7, 2017 - Lenten Weekday - St. John

Baptist de la Salle, Priest 8:00 a.m. Antoinetta & Luigi Emanuele 9:00 a.m. Pjeter, Victor & Gjergi

Saturday- April 8, 2017 - Lenten Weekday

8:00 a.m. Assunta & Josephine Vitiello 9:00 a.m. Maria & Libera Malafronte 5:30 p.m. Klaudio Simoni & Rudi Drekaj 7:00 p.m. Isabel Gondrez

Sunday- April 9, 2017 - Palm Sunday of the Passion

of the Lord 8:00 a.m. Mario DeBellis 9:00 a.m. Antonio Reyes Galvez 9:15 a.m. All Souls

10:30 a.m. Anthony & Geraldine DelGaudio 12:00 p.m. Leka, Lena, Nikoll & Shaqta (Spanish) 12:00 p.m. All Benefactors-Living & Deceased (English) 1:30 p.m. Victor & Hila Lulaj 2:00 p.m. Adelina Garcia

TODAY’S READINGS First Reading — Thus says the LORD GOD: I will open your graves, have you rise from them, and settle you on your land. (Ezekiel 37:12-14). Psalm — With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption (Psalm 130). Second Reading — If Christ is in you, the spirit is alive even if the body is dead because of sin (Romans 8:8-11). Gospel — Lazarus, dead for four days, came out of his tomb when Jesus called his name. Many of those who had seen what had happened began to believe in Jesus (John 11:1-45 [3-7, 17, 20-27, 33b-45]). The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

Tuesdays at 6:30pm Holy Mass

will be held in Albanian on the 13 Tuesdays before

the feast of St. Anthony on June 13, 2016

with the Veneration of the Relic of St. Anthony and the Blessing of the Bread

We welcome Leisha Campoverde, Isabella Mohabir, Jasmine Santana & Julian Valenzuela

Baptized on March 26, 2017 into the Roman Catholic Church

and our Parish community of St. Lucy

Requiescant in Pace Please remember in your prayers the parishioners, friends,

relatives and benefactors who recently died especially, Rosemarie Lenhard

May they rest in Peace, Amen.

In Memoriam The candle in honor of the Blessed Mother

burns this week in memory of Antonio C. Mosche a

Requested by Mosche a Family

The St. Joseph candle burns this week in memory of

Mildred, Anthony, Phil & Brandy Capano Requested by Roseann Cirelli

April 22, 2017 Eddie Zacatelco & Joselyn Sanchez

May 6, 2017 Anthony Mallorga &

Jessica Yunga

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Message from Fr. Pergjini- Last Friday, I visited a man in his 50s, to administer the last rites. He lives near our parish. It was my first visit with him. He looked very pale and unusually thin, reminding me of pictures we have seen of poor victims in World War II concentration camps before their death. As a priest, I have seen people before and after their death many times, but this gentleman touched me personally because of the deep and penetrating look in his eyes. It seemed as though, without a word, he was sharing his painful past. Fortunately, he has a younger sister who takes care of him, and she told me what happened. He was born a very healthy baby boy. Unfortunately, a few days after his birth, the nurse who was taking care of him, dropped the little baby on a hard part of his bed. She never realized the tragic consequences of this fall to the tiny baby’s mental and physical health. The blow from the fall was so great that the little fellow became paralyzed for life, and could neither speak nor move. His dear parents took care of him with great love and tender care for many years. Some time ago they died, leaving their dear son with his younger sister. With love and care, she continues as her parents did, to watch over him tenderly. She is unwilling to send him to a nursing home. I was listening to the story of his tragic life, his paralysis caused by the brief haste of a careless move. As the younger sister was telling me of these sad details, I was looking into his deep and penetrating eyes. It felt like a direct connection to his heart, and a powerful communication with his spirit, as we both sat in reverence and silence, thinking about his difficult life now close to an end without End. He has lived all these years without speech, but his look expressed very well the beauty of his innocent soul suffering in his sorrowful body all these years. After that visit I went to a funeral home for vigil prayers over a person who had no family. I was alone with a closed coffin in that funeral home. I said my prayers for the repose of her soul in silence. I felt her unknown presence invoking Christ's Mercy upon her soul. In silence and alone I spent some time in prayer looking at the crucifix and the closed coffin. I thought of the paralyzed man; it broke my heart to hear of his painful life. And then, I thought of this poor woman who died without family or friends, unknown to me but known to Our Dear Lord, as she found her last resting place in that empty parlor. In this veil of sadness it came to me that each of these people have left our mortal company, and died a natural death, as they faced the end of one life and the beginning of another. In years past, this would be a common experience. Unfortunately, New York State Senate has introduced a bill that would allow doctors to prescribe a lethal dose of ‘medicine’ at the request of a terminally ill patient, which would end their life. Unfortunately, the outcome of this legislation is called "death with dignity" and “patient self–determination” in order to give it a noble sounding purpose. Medicine, since ancient days, has been used to cure and to heal. Now, medicine is taking on a different meaning with a different outcome. If there is dignity in life, it is because we are creatures of our Divine Creator. If there is dignity in death, it is because He who has created us, is calling us home to live with Him forever. Did we bring ourselves here? If not, than how can we take ourselves away? Where is the consistency in this? What right do we have? Do we own our life, our body, our soul? Or is our life given as a gift? Could it be a gift given, for better or worse, to praise, love, and serve God in this world, under whatever circumstances we find ourselves, and then someday hopefully to live on in happiness with Him forever in heaven? Does the state have anything to do with God’s work? Did God create the state? Did the state create God? God brought us here. He will take us home when He is ready. Meanwhile, the depths of despair, pain, and suffering, remain a great mystery, one that will not go away after death drugs become available. Could it be that the last great dignity and purpose of our human life, is to pray for others in our family, in our Church, in our community, and outwardly across the world? Could physical suffering be connected to spiritual love? Could it be that suffering increases the value of our prayer many times over, just as Jesus’s suffering on Good Friday, changed the course of our spiritual history? To seek answers for some of these questions, I take refuge in people whom I have visited, family members and friends, who were and are fully aware that their life is a gift from God. They know that every human life is sacred from conception until natural death. They know that caring for people who are suffering with illness can be very challenging and difficult, for the caregiver as well as the patient. They know that health care professionals can do so much to comfort the afflicted. But they also know that a person who is suffering needs to be surrounded by the love and care that comes from close family, from faith, and prayer, and sacrifice, because this is as close as we can come to God’s own love for us, the love we hope to meet and be welcomed by in the next world. Meanwhile, we can educate ourselves to all the new medical options technology is bringing about, read the reports of Catholic thinkers on assisted suicide, and, if we are living by our Catholic Church beliefs, be ready to argue against these practices and their faulty underlying philosophy. Death drugs do not bring us dignity, and they do not solve the problem of pain and suffering in our world. Suffering is not a problem. It is a condition. It cannot be escaped in the course of our human experience, our human condition. If we deny it, or run from it, we can become cut off from a deeper spiritual understanding of our human condition, and how suffering offers a profound connection with God and with others, even as we don’t wish for it. If we think of pain as a problem to be solved with a pill, we will be missing the larger dynamic of God’s universe, and our place in it. As I write these words I cannot detach my thoughts from the deep and profound look on the paralyzed man’s face. For fifty-seven years, this man could not utter a single word, or take a single step. He couldn’t dance or play sports. He couldn’t hug his mother or his father. He couldn’t even feed himself. But in his eyes I could read and feel the sacredness of life, and the presence of Christ, who accompanies those who suffer. As we approach Good Friday and Easter Sunday, let us pray to Jesus, Our Lord and Savior, who on that first Easter, destroyed death and restored life for his followers, then, now, and always. Let us ask for His love, for His forgiveness, and for His guidance, support, and direction. Our life is in His hands. Amen.

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Mensaje de Padre Pergjini- El viernes pasado visité a un hombre de unos 50 años para administrar los últimos ritos. Vive cerca de nuestra parroquia. Fue mi primera visita con él. Se veía muy pálido e inusualmente delgado, recordándome las imágenes que hemos visto de las víctimas pobres en los campos de concentración de la Segunda Guerra Mundial antes de su muerte. Como sacerdote, he visto gente antes y después de su muerte muchas veces, pero este caballero me tocó personalmente debido a la mirada profunda y penetrante en sus ojos. Parecía como si, sin decir una palabra, estuviera compartiendo su doloroso pasado. Afortunadamente, él tiene una hermana menor que se ocupa de él, y ella me contó lo que pasó. Nació un bebé muy sano. Desafortunadamente, pocos días después de su nacimiento, la enfermera que estaba cuidando de él, dejó caer al bebé en una parte dura de su cama. Nunca se dio cuenta de las trágicas consecuencias de esta caída en la salud mental y física del pequeño bebé. El golpe de la caída fue tan grande que el pequeño se quedó paralizado por la vida, y no podía hablar ni moverse. Sus queridos padres cuidaron de él con gran amor y cuidado tierno durante muchos años. Hace algún tiempo murieron, dejando a su querido hijo con su hermana menor. Con amor y cariño, continúa como sus padres, para cuidarlo tiernamente. Ella no está dispuesta a enviarlo a un asilo de ancianos. Estaba escuchando la historia de su trágica vida, su parálisis causada por la breve prisa de un movimiento descuidado. Cuando la hermana menor me hablaba de estos tristes detalles, yo miraba sus profundos y penetrantes ojos. Se sentía como una conexión directa con su corazón, y una poderosa comunicación con su espíritu, ya que ambos sentados en reverencia y silencio, pensando en su vida difícil ahora cerca de un fin sin fin. Ha vivido todos estos años sin hablar, pero su mirada expresa muy bien la belleza de su alma inocente que sufre en su doloroso cuerpo todos estos años. Después de esa visita fui a una funeraria para oraciones de vigilancia sobre una persona que no tenía familia. Yo estaba solo con un ataúd cerrado en esa funeraria. Yo dije mis oraciones por el reposo de su alma en silencio. Sentí su presencia desconocida invocando la misericordia de Cristo sobre su alma. En silencio y solo pasé algún tiempo en oración mirando el crucifijo y el ataúd cerrado. Pensé en el paralítico; Rompió mi corazón al escuchar de su dolorosa vida. Y entonces, pensé en esta pobre mujer que murió sin familia ni amigos, desconocidos para mí, pero conocidos por Nuestro Querido Señor, cuando encontró su último lugar de descanso en aquella sala vacía. En este velo de tristeza vino a mí que cada una de estas personas ha dejado nuestra compañía mortal, y murió una muerte natural, al enfrentarse al final de una vida y al principio de otra. En años anteriores, esto sería una experiencia común. Desafortunadamente, el Senado del estado de Nueva York ha introducido un proyecto de ley que permitiría a los médicos prescribir una dosis letal de "medicina" a petición de un paciente en fase terminal, lo cual pondría fin a su vida. Desafortunadamente, el resultado de esta legislación se llama "muerte con dignidad" y "autodeterminación del paciente" para darle un noble propósito de sondeo. La medicina, desde tiempos antiguos, se ha utilizado para curar y sanar. Ahora, la medicina está adquiriendo un significado diferente con un resultado diferente. Si hay dignidad en la vida, es porque somos criaturas de nuestro Creador Divino. Si hay dignidad en la muerte, es porque El que nos ha creado, nos está llamando a casa para vivir con Él para siempre. ¿Nos trajimos aquí? Si no, ¿cómo podemos llevarnos? ¿Dónde está la consistencia en esto? ¿Qué derecho tenemos? ¿Poseemos nuestra vida, nuestro cuerpo, nuestra alma? ¿O es nuestra vida dada como un regalo? ¿Podría ser un regalo dado, para bien o para mal, para alabar, amar y servir a Dios en este mundo, bajo cualquier circunstancia que nos encontremos, y algún día esperemos vivir en felicidad con Él para siempre en el cielo? ¿Tiene el Estado algo que ver con la obra de Dios? ¿Creó Dios el estado? ¿El estado creó a Dios? Dios nos trajo aquí. Él nos llevará a casa cuando Él esté listo. Mientras tanto, las profundidades de la desesperación, el dolor y el sufrimiento, siguen siendo un gran misterio, uno que no desaparecerá después de que las drogas de la muerte estén disponibles. ¿Podría ser que la última gran dignidad y propósito de nuestra vida humana, es orar por los demás en nuestra familia, en nuestra Iglesia, en nuestra comunidad y exteriormente en todo el mundo? ¿Podría el sufrimiento físico estar conectado con el amor espiritual? ¿Podría ser que el sufrimiento aumenta el valor de nuestra oración muchas veces, al igual que el sufrimiento de Jesús el Viernes Santo, cambió el curso de nuestra historia espiritual? Para buscar respuestas a algunas de estas preguntas, me refugio en personas a las que he visitado, familiares y amigos, que eran y son plenamente conscientes de que su vida es un regalo de Dios. Saben que toda vida humana es sagrada desde la concepción hasta la muerte natural. Ellos saben que cuidar a las personas que están sufriendo con la enfermedad puede ser muy difícil y difícil, tanto para el cuidador como para el paciente. Ellos saben que los profesionales de la salud pueden hacer mucho para consolar a los afligidos. Pero también saben que una persona que sufre necesita estar rodeada del amor y cuidado que proviene de la familia cercana, de la fe, de la oración y del sacrificio, porque esto es lo más cercano que podemos llegar al amor de Dios por nosotros, El amor que esperamos encontrar y ser acogidos por en el otro mundo. Mientras tanto, podemos educarnos a todas las nuevas opciones médicas que la tecnología está produciendo, leer los informes de los pensadores católicos sobre el suicidio asistido y, si estamos viviendo por nuestras creencias de la Iglesia Católica, estar dispuestos a argumentar contra estas prácticas y sus fallas subyacentes filosofía. Las drogas de la muerte no nos traen dignidad, y no resuelven el problema del dolor y del sufrimiento en nuestro mundo. El sufrimiento no es un problema. Es una condición. No puede escaparse en el curso de nuestra experiencia humana, nuestra condición humana. Si lo negamos o huimos de él, podemos ser cortados de una comprensión espiritual más profunda de nuestra condición humana, y cómo el sufrimiento ofrece una profunda conexión con Dios y con los demás, aun cuando no lo deseemos. Si pensamos en el dolor como un problema que se resolverá con una píldora, nos faltará la dinámica más grande del universo de Dios y nuestro lugar en ella. Mientras escribo estas palabras, no puedo separar mis pensamientos de la mirada profunda y profunda del rostro del paralítico. Durante cincuenta y siete años, este hombre no pudo pronunciar una sola palabra ni dar un solo paso. No podía bailar ni practicar deportes. No podía abrazar a su madre ni a su padre. Ni siquiera podía alimentarse. Pero en sus ojos podía leer y sentir la santidad de la vida, y la presencia de Cristo, que acompaña a los que sufren. A medida que nos acercamos al Viernes Santo y Domingo de Pascua, oremos a Jesús, nuestro Señor y Salvador, que en esa primera Pascua, destruyó la muerte y restauró la vida de sus seguidores, entonces, ahora y siempre. Pidamos su amor, su perdón y su guía, apoyo y dirección. Nuestra vida está en Sus manos. Amén.

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St. Lucy Parish

Holy Thursday Vigil Note* There will be a five minute space of silence in between groups.

8:40 p.m. to 8:50 p.m. – Prayers in Italian 8:55 p.m. to 9:05 p.m. - Daughters of Mary 9:10 p.m. to 9:20 p.m. - Youth Group 9:25 p.m. to 9:35 p.m. - Prayers in English 9:40 p.m. to 9:50 p.m. - Holy Name Society 9:55 p.m. to 10:05 p.m. - Sagrado Corazon 10:10 p.m. to 10:20 p.m. - Circulo de Oracion 10:25 p.m. to 10:35 p.m. - Cursillistas 10:40 p.m. to 10:50 p.m. - Grupo Guadalupano 11:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. - Holy Hour in Silence

Nota importante* Habra una pausa de 5 minutos de silencio entre cada grupo.

VOLUNTEERS FOR GOOD FRIDAY, WAY OF THE CROSS PROCESSION

We need parish volunteers to help coordinate the Way of the Cross procession on Good Friday: parishioners, ushers, teenagers and you! We depend on your selfless support to help celebrate the event that changed the world. Please join us on Tuesday, of Holy Week, April 11 at 7 p.m. at St. Lucy’s auditor ium. Thank you and God Bless.

VOLUNTARIOS PARA LA PROCESION DE VIERNES SANTO

Necesitamos la ayuda de todos los parroquianos que puedan asistir a la Procesion de Viernes Santo: necesitamos ujieres, jóvenes, hombres, damas, para los personajes. Contamos con su apoyo incondicional a realizar el evento que cambio el mundo para siempre. Nos reuniremos el Martes de la Semana Santa, abril 11 a las 7 p.m. en el auditor io de la escuela. Les esperamos y contamos contigo. Gracias y Que Dios le bendiga.

St. Lucy Parish 2017 Pilgrimages Our pilgrimages promote spiritual growth with the aim to bring our parish family and community to a deeper spirituality in faith, hope, and love of Him, and to Him, and with Him, and in Him who is truly the Way, the Truth, and the Life May 19, 2017 - National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima -The Blue Army - bus leaves at 8:30 a.m. and returns by 7 p.m. $35.00 per person - Bring own food - picnic tables available. The Shrine is located on over 150 acres that rise over the scenic Musconetcong River Valley in New Jersey. The Chapel (or Capelinha) is only one of two exact replicas of the Chapel built at Fatima.

May 26, 2017 - St. Kateri, and Our Lady of Martyrs Shrine, Auriesville, NY- bus leaves 8 a.m. and we will return by 8 p.m. $40 per person - Bring own food - tables available. One of the holiest shrines in the world, the birth place of St. Kateri, and where the blood of many Jesuit martyrs was shed for the Catholic faith.

June 15, 2017 - National Shrine of Divine Mercy - bus leaves at 8:30 a.m. and returns by 7 p.m. $35 per person - Bring own food - vending machines and picnic tables available.

July 14, 2017 - National Shrine of The Miraculous Medal and St. Katherine Drexel, Philadelphia., PA - bus leaves at 8 a.m. and will return by 7 p.m. $40 per person. Bring own food - vending machines and tables available. Visit the sites where St. Katherine prayed and made her spiritual walk on this little spot of heaven.

August 10, 2017 - The National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa, Doylestown, PA - bus leaves at 8:30 a.m. and returns by 6 p.m. $40 per person. Bring own food - tables available.

September 21, 2017 - Shrine to Padre Pio, Barto, PA - bus leaves at 8:30 a.m. and returns by 7 p.m. $35 per person. Bring own food - picnic tables available. Talk and video will be provided on the life and works of St. Padre Pio.

October 13, 2017 - Shrine to Mary, Help of Christians, Stony Point, NY - bus leaves 9 a.m. and returns by 5 p.m. $30 per person. Bring own food - picnic area available.

December 15, 2017 - Shrine to Our Lady of LaSalette and the beautiful and exciting Christmas Lights Display, Attleboro, MA - bus leaves at 11 a.m. and returns by 10 p.m. $45 per person. Bring own food - snack bar and cafeteria tables available.

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